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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 does Marx say is the central theme of pastoral literature?
(a) The futility of fighting nature.
(b) The imperative to transform nature.
(c) The interruption of woodland peace.
(d) The desire to merge with nature.

2. What do Americans abandon when they are under the influence of the sentimental pastoral ideal?
(a) Small towns.
(b) Urban areas.
(c) Urban parks.
(d) Outdated buildings.

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

4. When did Thomas Jefferson publish his Notes on Virginia?
(a) 1803.
(b) 1781.
(c) 1776.
(d) 1789.

5. What is the second reaction Marx describes to industrialism?
(a) Environmentalism.
(b) Urban planning for green spaces.
(c) Withdrawal from modernization.
(d) Conservationism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where had Barlowe traveled to?

2. What is the relationship between industrialism and pastoralism?

3. What virtues did Jefferson associate with the civilization?

4. How did Americans see westward expansion, in Marx's account?

5. What do liberal thinkers say the sentimental pastoral ideal results in, according to Marx?

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