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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 form of art had reached a peak in Thomas Jefferson's time?
(a) Homeric versa.
(b) Trompe l'oeil paintings.
(c) Landscape painting.
(d) Terza rima.

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

3. What possibility did Marx hear resonating from the Crevecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer?
(a) The promise that a man can change his life.
(b) The promise that the wilderness can be domesticated.
(c) The promise that the city can be redeemed by the country.
(d) The promise that nature can be civilized without being corrupted.

4. When did Thomas Jefferson publish his Notes on Virginia?
(a) 1789.
(b) 1803.
(c) 1781.
(d) 1776.

5. What did Emerson say that science and technology could serve?
(a) Corrupt men.
(b) A rural ideal.
(c) Powerless men.
(d) A destructive god.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Marx point out was formed as a result of the Revolutionary War?

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

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