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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 temporary respites.
(b) He should keep nature alive in his cities.
(c) For permanent residence.
(d) On weekends.

2. 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.

3. How were frontiersmen typically portrayed by easterners in Jefferson's time?
(a) As untamed.
(b) As epicures.
(c) As dilettantes.
(d) As civilizing agents.

4. What did Emerson say that science and technology could serve?
(a) Powerless men.
(b) A destructive god.
(c) Corrupt men.
(d) A rural ideal.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Thoreau describe modern man?

2. What was the opposite of Barlowe's experience in his travels?

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

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

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

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