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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 does Marx characterize Prospero and members of the court?
(a) As experienced people hoping for redemption.
(b) As spokesmen for conservation.
(c) As advance agents of civilization.
(d) As victims of political power.

2. What would men of understanding provide in Emerson's vision?
(a) Literature.
(b) Technology.
(c) Leadership.
(d) Religion.

3. What contradictory aspects of the American landscape came to characterize American pastoralism?
(a) Wisdom and innocence.
(b) Savagery and civilization.
(c) Hardship and providence.
(d) Lawlessness and restraint.

4. What aspects of European civilization were the Virginia settlers glad to leave behind, in Beverly's history?
(a) Dogmas and conflicts over religion.
(b) Suppression of religious expression.
(c) Vanities and conflicts over property.
(d) Plagues and uncertainty over medical treatment.

5. What kind of existence did Barlowe describe having encountered in his travels?
(a) Dangerous.
(b) Tumultuous.
(c) Idyllic.
(d) Savage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would Gonzalo's ideal be characterized by?

2. What does Marx say Thoreau wanted people to do in nature?

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

4. What did Henry Adams envision as the consequence of technology?

5. What form of art had reached a peak in Thomas Jefferson's time?

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