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

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

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

4. What criticism did Carlyle make of American industrialism?
(a) He complained about the decline of marriage in cities.
(b) He protested the destruction of indigenous societies.
(c) He lamented the death of wildlife.
(d) He decried the disruption of nature.

5. What other American literature does Marx say exemplifies the three-stage theme he identified in Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?
(a) Twain's Huckleberry Finn.
(b) Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher.
(c) Morrison's Beloved.
(d) Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Emerson originally propose in his philosophy?

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

3. Which characters are engaged in the final struggle in Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?

4. What was Jefferson's ideal of equality democracy founded on?

5. What trait did American thinkers and writers see in evidence in America's industrial expansion?

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