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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Two Kingdoms of Force.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What effect does fire have in Hawthorne's The Unpardonable Sin?
(a) It spreads light into the wilderness.
(b) It destroys an everyman.
(c) It brings religion to people.
(d) It drives factories and great productivity.

2. How many Americans lived on farms by the end of the 19th century?
(a) 90%.
(b) 75%.
(c) 40%.
(d) 99%.

3. What conclusion about technology does the narrator reach at the end of Twain's Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court?
(a) Nature ultimately conquered industrial man.
(b) Society's benefits do not outweigh its costs.
(c) Primitive human psychology is inescapable.
(d) Progress changes the course of human nature.

4. What would people live on, in Gonzalo's ideal world?
(a) Nature's bounty.
(b) Money from exports.
(c) Imported grain.
(d) Natives' produce.

5. What was Jefferson's ideal of equality democracy founded on?
(a) The free market.
(b) Protecting individuals from industrialism.
(c) Fostering entrepreneurship.
(d) A government that encouraged self-reliance.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Marx characterize Prospero and members of the court?

2. What did colonists find in America?

3. When was man supposed to return to nature, in Thoreau's vision?

4. What was nature's role supposed to be in the nation's future, by Jefferson's time?

5. When did the assault on American pastoralism begin, in Marx's account?

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