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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 do liberal thinkers say the sentimental pastoral ideal results in, according to Marx?
(a) Industrial developments.
(b) Peace movements.
(c) Reactionary philosophy.
(d) Ignorance and apathy.

2. What would people live on, in Gonzalo's ideal world?
(a) Money from exports.
(b) Nature's bounty.
(c) Natives' produce.
(d) Imported grain.

3. What was the general feeling about industrialism in America, as it expanded?
(a) Caution.
(b) Doubt.
(c) Positivism.
(d) Optimism.

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

5. For what occasion did Jefferson write his Notes on Virginia?
(a) Upon his travels to Europe.
(b) As an inventory when he was governor.
(c) At a French Diplomat's request.
(d) For leisure.

Short Answer Questions

1. What conclusion about technology does the narrator reach at the end of Twain's Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court?

2. What contradiction does Marx say is Melville's true theme in Moby Dick?

3. What did Emerson's philosophy ultimately propose?

4. What symbolic statement does Marx say Twain made in the raft being destroyed in Huckleberry Finn?

5. What 'sealed the fate' of American industrialism, according to Marx?

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