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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. How had the Enlightenment changed pastoral thought, in Marx's account?
(a) Engineers could shape nature more efficiently.
(b) Colonization had subdued the natives and killed off predatory animals.
(c) Factories had subjugated nature.
(d) Nature commanded new respect.

2. What American literature does Marx say exemplifies the three-stage theme he identified in Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?
(a) Thoreau's Walden.
(b) Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath.
(c) James' Daisy Miller.
(d) Norris' The Octopus.

3. What does an individual gain by passing through these three spatial stages?
(a) A high ground in terms of religious experience.
(b) Maturity.
(c) Legitimacy as an American.
(d) A middle ground between city and country.

4. Who typically espouses the sentimental pastoral ideal?
(a) Engineers.
(b) Industrialists.
(c) Urban planners.
(d) Politicians.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. America was depicted as a paradise that was also what, in Marx's account?

2. What effect did Carlyle say industrialism would have?

3. What do Americans abandon when they are under the influence of the sentimental pastoral ideal?

4. How did Thoreau describe modern man?

5. What writer does Marx credit with beginning the theme of pastoralism in literature?

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