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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 did nature continue to redeem individuals in pastoral ideology?
(a) Wealth would allow people to take more vacations in national parks.
(b) Trains would bring people closer to wild areas from the city.
(c) 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.
(d) As long as civilization could continue to exploit resources, it could avert class warfare.

2. What do liberal thinkers say the sentimental pastoral ideal results in, according to Marx?
(a) Peace movements.
(b) Industrial developments.
(c) Reactionary philosophy.
(d) Ignorance and apathy.

3. What kind of lifestyle does Marx say Americans want?
(a) More elegant.
(b) Simpler.
(c) Faster.
(d) More complex.

4. When did complex pastoral ideology come into existence?
(a) Eighteenth century.
(b) With colonization.
(c) Twentieth century.
(d) Nineteenth century.

5. What part of 'The Tempest' held special interest for Marx?
(a) The portrait of indecision about taking the throne.
(b) The portrait of men who gain power by disposing of natural resources.
(c) The portrait of an unspoiled landscape invaded by Europeans.
(d) The portrait of love's frailty against political power.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the keys to the American landscape, in the views that were the opposite of Barlowe's?

2. When was man supposed to return to nature, in Thoreau's vision?

3. How do Americans express their sentimental pastoral ideal?

4. What possibility did Marx hear resonating from the Crevecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer?

5. What is the first reaction Marx describes to industrialism?

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