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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 writer does Marx credit with beginning the theme of pastoralism in literature?
(a) Virgil.
(b) Homer.
(c) Hawthorne.
(d) Plato.

2. How did nature continue to redeem individuals in pastoral ideology?
(a) As long as civilization could continue to exploit resources, it could avert class warfare.
(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) Wealth would allow people to take more vacations in national parks.

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

4. What is the second stage of life that Marx describes through Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?
(a) Return to the city.
(b) Life in nature.
(c) Return to nature.
(d) Life in the city.

5. How did Thoreau describe modern man?
(a) Unhappy in factories.
(b) Poised at the boundary between nature and industry.
(c) Torn apart by his desires.
(d) Free in the wilderness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What conclusion about technology does the narrator reach at the end of Twain's Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court?

2. What threat to the country's moral superiority had developed by Jefferson's time?

3. What human structure did Barlowe describe America in terms of?

4. What does Marx say is unique about pastoralism in the industrial age in America?

5. What feature of modern society came into existence with American industrialism?

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