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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. How did nature continue to redeem individuals in pastoral ideology?
(a) Wealth would allow people to take more vacations in national parks.
(b) After earning money in the factories, a person could buy land out west. Wealth would allow people to take more vacations in national parks. Trains would bring people closer to wild areas from the city. After earning money in the factories, a person could buy land out west.
(c) Trains would bring people closer to wild areas from the city.
(d) As long as civilization could continue to exploit resources, it could avert class warfare.

2. Whom does Marx credit with predicting all the evils of industrialism?
(a) Daniel Webster.
(b) Thomas Jefferson.
(c) John Orvis.
(d) Ralph Waldo Emerson.

3. What is the consequence of knowing nature, according to Twain's work?
(a) Knowing the wild spirit of nature.
(b) Feeling free of society.
(c) Losing familiarity with the whole.
(d) Knowing the deep inter-connectedness of things.

4. What kinds of machines especially did Americans welcome at the end of the 18th century?
(a) Telegraphs.
(b) Machine tools.
(c) Milling machines.
(d) Railroads.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Emerson describe the relationship between the east and the west?

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

3. What does Ishmael symbolize, in Marx's interpretation of Moby Dick?

4. What was the effect of industrialism in Thoreau's vision?

5. What was unique about American manufacturing, in Coxe's view?

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