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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 secondary plot does Marx see as important for his purposes?
(a) The struggle for domination over nature.
(b) The conflict over resource use.
(c) The struggle for poetic expression.
(d) The conflict over resource use.

2. What did Emerson originally propose in his philosophy?
(a) Immersion in nature.
(b) Immersion in science.
(c) Immersion in literature.
(d) Immersion in society.

3. What is Ishmael's task, in Marx's description of Melville's vision in Moby Dick?
(a) To save the ship.
(b) To reconcile nature and society.
(c) To kill the white whale.
(d) To restrain Ahab.

4. How did Barlowe describe the indigenous people he encountered?
(a) As evil and plotting.
(b) As simple and virtuous.
(c) As barbaric and cruel.
(d) As naïve and untrustworthy.

5. What is Huck Finn lamenting at the beginning of Huckleberry Finn?
(a) Jim's incarceration.
(b) Tom Sawyer's punishment.
(c) His loss of his father.
(d) His current civilized state.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Jefferson describe the representative man in Notes on Virginia?

2. What aspects of European civilization were the Virginia settlers glad to leave behind, in Beverly's history?

3. What does the Pequod symbolize in Melville's Moby Dick?

4. What would people live on, in Gonzalo's ideal world?

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

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