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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 does the ocean symbolize in Melville's Moby Dick?
(a) Nature's danger.
(b) Man's redemption.
(c) Man's creativity.
(d) A provident god.

2. What was nature's role supposed to be in the nation's future, by Jefferson's time?
(a) Agriculture was going to supply the nation's wealth.
(b) Virgin territory was going absorb all the overflowing east-coast cities.
(c) Natural resources were going to be a source of wealth for generations.
(d) Wilderness was going to redeem the nation's soul.

3. 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.

4. What does the end of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' demonstrate, in Marx's interpretation?
(a) Fairness in dividing territory.
(b) Balance between men and women.
(c) Justice in righting old wrongs.
(d) Balance between man and nature.

5. What does Marx say Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' demonstrates?
(a) The impossibility of the pastoral ideal.
(b) The corruption of the Old World.
(c) The plan for Utopia in America.
(d) The personalities who will be required to develop America.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does fire symbolize in Hawthorne's The Unpardonable Sin?

2. For what occasion did Jefferson write his Notes on Virginia?

3. What was the effect of industrialism in Thoreau's vision?

4. What other American literature does Marx say exemplifies the three-stage theme he identified in Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?

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

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