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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 the first settlers see Virginia, in Beverly's history?
(a) As a purgatory.
(b) As a desert.
(c) As a promised land.
(d) As a pestilential swamp.

2. What did Henry Adams envision as the consequence of technology?
(a) The human race committing suicide.
(b) The unification of knowledge in one science.
(c) The unification of humans and nature.
(d) Disaffection, alienation, and disease.

3. What feeling characterized the beginning of Mark Twain's writing career?
(a) Nostalgia for the old days on the Mississippi.
(b) Optimism about industrial expansion into the midwest.
(c) Fear about the consequences of the railroad.
(d) Lamentation about the death of Indian cultures.

4. How were frontiersmen typically portrayed by easterners in Jefferson's time?
(a) As untamed.
(b) As dilettantes.
(c) As epicures.
(d) As civilizing agents.

5. What symbolic statement does Marx say Twain made in the raft being destroyed in Huckleberry Finn?
(a) Hiding from society is impossible.
(b) Man is alone in the river of life.
(c) Fleeing from the law is dangerous.
(d) Technology has progressed beyond steamboats.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the opposite of Barlowe's experience in his travels?

2. What virtues would the Jeffersonian man strike a balance between?

3. What 'sealed the fate' of American industrialism, according to Marx?

4. What did Jefferson ultimately conclude about industrialism?

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

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