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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 is the consequence of knowing nature, according to Twain's work?
(a) Feeling free of society.
(b) Losing familiarity with the whole.
(c) Knowing the deep inter-connectedness of things.
(d) Knowing the wild spirit of nature.

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

3. What does Marx say Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' demonstrates?
(a) The personalities who will be required to develop America.
(b) The impossibility of the pastoral ideal.
(c) The corruption of the Old World.
(d) The plan for Utopia in America.

4. How were frontiersmen typically portrayed by easterners in Jefferson's time?
(a) As epicures.
(b) As civilizing agents.
(c) As untamed.
(d) As dilettantes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the second reaction Marx describes to industrialism?

2. What did Emerson say that science and technology could serve?

3. What does Marx say is the leading image of industrialism?

4. What did colonists find in America?

5. What dangers were writers warning about as America urbanized?

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