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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 desire does Marx describe as the opposite of Barlowe's view?
(a) The desire to convert the savages.
(b) The desire to make the earth productive.
(c) The desire to know the earth mystically.
(d) The desire to tame the landscape.

2. What is Ishmael's task, in Marx's description of Melville's vision in Moby Dick?
(a) To save the ship.
(b) To kill the white whale.
(c) To restrain Ahab.
(d) To reconcile nature and society.

3. What virtues did Jefferson associate with the civilization?
(a) Ingenuity and technology.
(b) Intellect and privilege.
(c) Creativity and inspiration.
(d) Creativity and inspiration.

4. What is Huck Finn lamenting at the beginning of Huckleberry Finn?
(a) His current civilized state.
(b) His loss of his father.
(c) Tom Sawyer's punishment.
(d) Jim's incarceration.

5. What would men of understanding provide in Emerson's vision?
(a) Technology.
(b) Leadership.
(c) Literature.
(d) Religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What effect does fire have in Hawthorne's The Unpardonable Sin?

2. How many Americans lived on farms by the end of the 19th century?

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

4. What was the opposite of Barlowe's experience in his travels?

5. What symbolic statement does Marx say Twain made in the raft being destroyed in Huckleberry Finn?

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