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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. When did the pastoral idea become part of American culture?
(a) At colonization.
(b) At the Revolution.
(c) During the French Revolution.
(d) At the Industrial Revolution.

2. What dangers were writers warning about as America urbanized?
(a) Loss of nature.
(b) Declining value of money.
(c) Creation of a permanently poor underclass.
(d) Decline of morals.

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

4. America was depicted as a paradise that was also what, in Marx's account?
(a) A place of hardship.
(b) A source for good in the Old World.
(c) A refuge.
(d) A place of redemption.

5. What does Marx say is the leading image of industrialism?
(a) The cotton gin.
(b) The steam locomotive.
(c) The steamship.
(d) The factory.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who typically espouses the sentimental pastoral ideal?

2. What does an individual gain by passing through these three spatial stages?

3. What does pastoral ideology conflict with, in Marx's account?

4. What is the third stage of life that Marx describes through Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?

5. How had feelings about nature changed by Jefferson's time?

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