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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 trait did American thinkers and writers see in evidence in America's industrial expansion?
(a) Greed.
(b) World-weariness.
(c) Corruption.
(d) Creativity.

2. How does Marx characterize Prospero and members of the court?
(a) As spokesmen for conservation.
(b) As advance agents of civilization.
(c) As experienced people hoping for redemption.
(d) As victims of political power.

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

4. What possibility did Marx hear resonating from the Crevecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer?
(a) The promise that the wilderness can be domesticated.
(b) The promise that nature can be civilized without being corrupted.
(c) The promise that the city can be redeemed by the country.
(d) The promise that a man can change his life.

5. What thinkers does Marx say followed Carlyle's critique of industrialism?
(a) William James and John Dewey.
(b) Derrida and Foucault.
(c) Hegel and Marx.
(d) Lenin and Stalin.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Americans express their sentimental pastoral ideal?

2. What feeling characterized the beginning of Mark Twain's writing career?

3. How was Hawthorne's description interrupted?

4. What was unique about American manufacturing, in Coxe's view?

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

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