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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 was Jefferson's ideal of equality democracy founded on?
(a) A government that encouraged self-reliance.
(b) Protecting individuals from industrialism.
(c) The free market.
(d) Fostering entrepreneurship.

2. When was that work written, which Barlowe likely influenced--and which also influenced Shakespeare in its description of a pastoral paradise?
(a) 1590.
(b) 1650.
(c) 1609.
(d) 1584.

3. What secondary plot does Marx see as important for his purposes?
(a) The conflict over resource use.
(b) The struggle for poetic expression.
(c) The conflict over resource use.
(d) The struggle for domination over nature.

4. What does Marx say Beverly felt about the New World, by the end of his history?
(a) Disappointed.
(b) Elated.
(c) Determined.
(d) Cautiously optimistic.

5. What was nature's role supposed to be in the nation's future, by Jefferson's time?
(a) Agriculture was going to supply the nation's wealth.
(b) Natural resources were going to be a source of wealth for generations.
(c) Wilderness was going to redeem the nation's soul.
(d) Virgin territory was going absorb all the overflowing east-coast cities.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Beverly describe changing in the New World as a result of European settlement?

2. What kind of existence did Barlowe describe having encountered in his travels?

3. Why did Beverly feel as he did by the end of his work?

4. Which leisure activity does Marx identify as revealing the influence of the sentimental pastoral ideal?

5. What should man do in nature, in Thoreau's vision?

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