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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 human structure did Barlowe describe America in terms of?
(a) City.
(b) Church.
(c) Heaven.
(d) Garden.

2. What was the opposite of Barlowe's experience in his travels?
(a) Storms and primitive land.
(b) Sparse resources and unsafe territory.
(c) Rocky soil and harsh laws.
(d) Political intrigue.

3. How had feelings about nature changed by Jefferson's time?
(a) Nature seemed chaotic and devilish compared with civilization.
(b) Nature seemed divine and benevolent compared with corrupt man.
(c) Nature seemed benevolent compared with the disordered city.
(d) Nature had become a mirror for man's corrupt soul.

4. 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) Progress changes the course of human nature.
(d) Primitive human psychology is inescapable.

5. What allowed America to preserve Jeffersonian ideals for 100 years after Jefferson wrote about them?
(a) Slow pace of technological development.
(b) A frontier to expand into.
(c) Absence of foreign threats.
(d) Peace with natives.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Beverly describe as the paradox of existence in the New World?

2. What feeling characterized the beginning of Mark Twain's writing career?

3. What sources does Marx suppose Shakespeare read for 'The Tempest'?

4. What did Emerson say that science and technology could serve?

5. What did Emerson's philosophy ultimately propose?

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