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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 Henry Adams envision as the consequence of technology?
(a) Disaffection, alienation, and disease.
(b) The human race committing suicide.
(c) The unification of knowledge in one science.
(d) The unification of humans and nature.

2. What contradiction does Marx say is Melville's true theme in Moby Dick?
(a) Industry provides for men and destroys them.
(b) The divine inspires and undermines man's projects.
(c) Nature provides man with everything, and it kills him.
(d) Man reveres nature but plunders it.

3. What does Marx point out was formed as a result of the Revolutionary War?
(a) Filthy cities.
(b) An industrial capacity.
(c) Corrupt government.
(d) Opposition to expansion.

4. What were the keys to the American landscape, in the views that were the opposite of Barlowe's?
(a) Generosity and sharing.
(b) Development and expansion.
(c) Conservation and reservations.
(d) Hard work and sacrifice.

5. When was man supposed to return to nature, in Thoreau's vision?
(a) On weekends.
(b) He should keep nature alive in his cities.
(c) For temporary respites.
(d) For permanent residence.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Jefferson describe the representative man in Notes on Virginia?

2. What did Emerson originally propose in his philosophy?

3. What conflict does Marx say was avoided as America expanded?

4. In what art does Marx see pastoral ideology contributing to a more realistic outcome for American society?

5. What is the relationship between industrialism and pastoralism?

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