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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 is the first stage of life that Marx describes through Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?
(a) Life in the city.
(b) Life in religion.
(c) Return to nature.
(d) Life in nature.

2. When did a uniquely American pastoral image emerge?
(a) Seventeenth century.
(b) Eighteenth century.
(c) At colonization.
(d) Nineteenth century.

3. What is the most important part of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest', in Marx's estimation?
(a) A political power struggle.
(b) A conflict over territory.
(c) A conflict over how to use resources.
(d) An engagement and marriage.

4. What secondary plot does Marx see as important for his purposes?
(a) The struggle for domination over nature.
(b) The struggle for poetic expression.
(c) The conflict over resource use.
(d) The conflict over resource use.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the consequence of knowing nature, according to Twain's work?

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

3. How did Emerson portray nature?

4. What would men of reason provide in Emerson's vision?

5. What does Marx say Beverly felt about the New World, by the end of his history?

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