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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 the end of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' demonstrate, in Marx's interpretation?
(a) Balance between men and women.
(b) Balance between man and nature.
(c) Justice in righting old wrongs.
(d) Fairness in dividing territory.

2. What does Marx say is the 'sentimental' pastoral ideal?
(a) The savages' harmony with nature.
(b) Domesticating wild things.
(c) Green, rural lifestyle.
(d) Harnessing natural resources.

3. Marx writes that America offered men a middle state between what and what in the eighteenth century?
(a) Civilization and primitive life.
(b) Wilderness and domestication.
(c) Corruption and innocence.
(d) Comfort and exploration.

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(d) Outdated buildings.

5. How was Hawthorne's description interrupted?
(a) By a railroad whistle.
(b) By an Indian.
(c) By a blue jay.
(d) By a merchant.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the first settlers see Virginia, in Beverly's history?

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

3. What were the keys to the American landscape, in the views that were the opposite of Barlowe's?

4. What does Marx say is the central theme of pastoral literature?

5. What would people live on, in Gonzalo's ideal world?

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