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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 contradiction does Marx say is Melville's true theme in Moby Dick?
(a) The divine inspires and undermines man's projects.
(b) Nature provides man with everything, and it kills him.
(c) Industry provides for men and destroys them.
(d) Man reveres nature but plunders it.

2. What aspects of European civilization were the Virginia settlers glad to leave behind, in Beverly's history?
(a) Suppression of religious expression.
(b) Dogmas and conflicts over religion.
(c) Plagues and uncertainty over medical treatment.
(d) Vanities and conflicts over property.

3. What American literature does Marx say exemplifies the three-stage theme he identified in Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?
(a) Norris' The Octopus.
(b) James' Daisy Miller.
(c) Thoreau's Walden.
(d) Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath.

4. In Jefferson's time, how did the eastern farmers come to see nature, as a result of their work?
(a) As a raw material.
(b) As a new nature.
(c) As an improved nature.
(d) As a domestic industry.

5. What was it that Jefferson described as a threat to the moral center of democracy?
(a) Native Americans.
(b) Corruption.
(c) Industrialism.
(d) European military power.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the keys to the American landscape, in the views that were the opposite of Barlowe's?

2. What is the relationship between industrialism and pastoralism?

3. What does Marx relate Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' to?

4. How did the first settlers see Virginia, in Beverly's history?

5. What is Huck Finn lamenting at the beginning of Huckleberry Finn?

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