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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 unique about American manufacturing, in Coxe's view?
(a) Markets were waiting for American goods.
(b) The raw materials were limitless.
(c) It presented enormous economic opportunities.
(d) The environment would keep it healthy.

2. What contradiction does Marx say is Melville's true theme in Moby Dick?
(a) The divine inspires and undermines man's projects.
(b) Industry provides for men and destroys them.
(c) Nature provides man with everything, and it kills him.
(d) Man reveres nature but plunders it.

3. Where had Barlowe traveled to?
(a) Massachusetts.
(b) Virginia.
(c) Tahiti.
(d) Brazil.

4. What kind of existence did Barlowe describe having encountered in his travels?
(a) Dangerous.
(b) Idyllic.
(c) Tumultuous.
(d) Savage.

5. What did Emerson's philosophy ultimately propose?
(a) Reconciliation of industry and nature.
(b) Domestication of nature.
(c) Urbanization of nature.
(d) Rejection of industry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the end of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' demonstrate, in Marx's interpretation?

2. What American literature does Marx say exemplifies the three-stage theme he identified in Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?

3. What is the second stage of life that Marx describes through Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?

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

5. What aspects of European civilization were the Virginia settlers glad to leave behind, in Beverly's history?

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