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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 conclusion about technology does the narrator reach at the end of Twain's Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court?
(a) Primitive human psychology is inescapable.
(b) Progress changes the course of human nature.
(c) Society's benefits do not outweigh its costs.
(d) Nature ultimately conquered industrial man.

2. What were the keys to the American landscape, in the views that were the opposite of Barlowe's?
(a) Conservation and reservations.
(b) Hard work and sacrifice.
(c) Generosity and sharing.
(d) Development and expansion.

3. What did the new world fail to offer newcomers, in typical accounts?
(a) Civilization.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Power.
(d) Art.

4. What was Daniel Webster's take on industrialism?
(a) He used it to his profit.
(b) He loathed the railroad.
(c) He embraced the new power.
(d) He lamented the changing structure of society.

5. What was the general feeling about industrialism in America, as it expanded?
(a) Doubt.
(b) Caution.
(c) Positivism.
(d) Optimism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What virtues did Jefferson associate with the civilization?

2. What part of man remained free of industrialism, in Carlyle's view?

3. When was that work written, which Barlowe likely influenced--and which also influenced Shakespeare in its description of a pastoral paradise?

4. What would people live on, in Gonzalo's ideal world?

5. How did Coxe's vision for industrialism intersect with pastoralism?

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