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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) Nature provides man with everything, and it kills him.
(b) The divine inspires and undermines man's projects.
(c) Man reveres nature but plunders it.
(d) Industry provides for men and destroys them.

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

3. What does the Pequod symbolize in Melville's Moby Dick?
(a) Elemental nature.
(b) Industry.
(c) Modern society.
(d) Spiritual degradation.

4. What did Jefferson want to keep in Europe?
(a) Government.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Finance.
(d) Manufacturing.

5. What virtues would the Jeffersonian man strike a balance between?
(a) Nature and civility.
(b) Literature and action.
(c) Poetry and technology.
(d) Urbaneness and wilderness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Emerson's philosophy ultimately propose?

2. America was depicted as a paradise that was also what, in Marx's account?

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

4. How does Marx describe the pastoralism of the 19th century?

5. Where had Barlowe traveled to?

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