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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. Which leisure activity does Marx identify as revealing the influence of the sentimental pastoral ideal?
(a) Travel.
(b) Flying.
(c) Theatre.
(d) Hiking.

2. What skill did Twain idealize?
(a) The Indian soldier's warfare.
(b) The steam locomotive engineer's control over the train.
(c) The riverboat pilot's knowledge of the river.
(d) The engineer's ability to bridge rivers.

3. What is the first reaction Marx describes to industrialism?
(a) Rebellion.
(b) Feelings of alienation.
(c) Relocation.
(d) Unionization.

4. What thinkers does Marx say followed Carlyle's critique of industrialism?
(a) Lenin and Stalin.
(b) Derrida and Foucault.
(c) William James and John Dewey.
(d) Hegel and Marx.

5. What piece by Nathaniel Hawthorne does Marx treat as emblematic of American pastoralism?
(a) Sleepy Hollow Notes.
(b) Mosses from an Old Manse.
(c) The Marble Faun.
(d) The Celestial Railroad.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. When was that work written, which Barlowe likely influenced--and which also influenced Shakespeare in its description of a pastoral paradise?

4. What part of 'The Tempest' held special interest for Marx?

5. What did Henry Adams envision as the consequence of technology?

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