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

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

3. What does Marx point out was formed as a result of the Revolutionary War?
(a) Filthy cities.
(b) Opposition to expansion.
(c) An industrial capacity.
(d) Corrupt government.

4. What is the third stage of life that Marx describes through Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?
(a) Return to the city.
(b) Return to home.
(c) Return to nature.
(d) Return to childhood.

5. What does Marx say Thoreau wanted people to do in nature?
(a) Meditate.
(b) Hide.
(c) Organize.
(d) Invent.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the new world fail to offer newcomers, in typical accounts?

2. What is the most important part of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest', in Marx's estimation?

3. How had the Enlightenment changed pastoral thought, in Marx's account?

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

5. What feeling characterized the beginning of Mark Twain's writing career?

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