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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. When was man supposed to return to nature, in Thoreau's vision?
(a) For permanent residence.
(b) He should keep nature alive in his cities.
(c) On weekends.
(d) For temporary respites.

2. What symbolic statement does Marx say Twain made in the raft being destroyed in Huckleberry Finn?
(a) Man is alone in the river of life.
(b) Hiding from society is impossible.
(c) Technology has progressed beyond steamboats.
(d) Fleeing from the law is dangerous.

3. What threat to the country's moral superiority had developed by Jefferson's time?
(a) Public transit.
(b) Enclosure laws.
(c) The end of slavery.
(d) Slavery.

4. What is the relationship between industrialism and pastoralism?
(a) Cause and effect.
(b) Mutual exclusivity.
(c) Mutual reinforcement.
(d) Conflict.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How did Emerson describe the relationship between the east and the west?

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

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

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