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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 effect does fire have in Hawthorne's The Unpardonable Sin?
(a) It drives factories and great productivity.
(b) It destroys an everyman.
(c) It spreads light into the wilderness.
(d) It brings religion to people.

2. What did Daniel Webster believe the railroad would do for America?
(a) Terrify the livestock.
(b) Corrupt the youth.
(c) Destroy the traditions.
(d) Unify the people.

3. How did Coxe's vision for industrialism intersect with pastoralism?
(a) Coxe prophesied that extractive industries would ruin the landscape.
(b) Coxe thought that factories would blight the landscape.
(c) Coxe predicted that industries would leave dead places in the environment when they collapsed.
(d) Coxe thought that America's environment would make the factory a pastoral place.

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

5. What was Daniel Webster's feeling about pastoralism?
(a) He thought it could co-exist with technology.
(b) He thought it would corrupt America's soul.
(c) He set out national parks to preserve pastoral spaces.
(d) He thought it would heal industrialism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Coxe foresee for America?

2. What does Marx say is unique about pastoralism in the industrial age in America?

3. What desire does Marx describe as the opposite of Barlowe's view?

4. What does an individual gain by passing through these three spatial stages?

5. What do liberal thinkers say the sentimental pastoral ideal results in, according to Marx?

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