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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 desire does Marx describe as the opposite of Barlowe's view?
(a) The desire to tame the landscape.
(b) The desire to convert the savages.
(c) The desire to make the earth productive.
(d) The desire to know the earth mystically.

2. What associations were suggested by Marx's leading symbol of industrialism?
(a) Power, productivity, and order.
(b) Steam, progress, and control over the ocean.
(c) Efficiency, control, and profit.
(d) Fire, smoke and speed.

3. What is the relationship between industrialism and pastoralism?
(a) Mutual reinforcement.
(b) Mutual exclusivity.
(c) Conflict.
(d) Cause and effect.

4. When did Robert Beverly write his history of Virginia?
(a) 1607.
(b) 1690.
(c) 1703.
(d) 1620.

5. What conclusion about technology does the narrator reach at the end of Twain's Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court?
(a) Nature ultimately conquered industrial man.
(b) Primitive human psychology is inescapable.
(c) Society's benefits do not outweigh its costs.
(d) Progress changes the course of human nature.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marx say is the 'sentimental' pastoral ideal?

2. What does Marx point out accompanied factories and progress in transportation?

3. In Jefferson's time, how did the eastern farmers come to see nature, as a result of their work?

4. What is the most important part of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest', in Marx's estimation?

5. What American literature does Marx say exemplifies the three-stage theme he identified in Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?

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