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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 sources does Marx suppose Shakespeare read for 'The Tempest'?
(a) Accounts of travel to the Pacific islands.
(b) Accounts of African tribes.
(c) Accounts of travel to India.
(d) Accounts of travel to the New World.

2. What did Emerson originally propose in his philosophy?
(a) Immersion in society.
(b) Immersion in literature.
(c) Immersion in science.
(d) Immersion in nature.

3. What skill did Twain idealize?
(a) The Indian soldier's warfare.
(b) The engineer's ability to bridge rivers.
(c) The steam locomotive engineer's control over the train.
(d) The riverboat pilot's knowledge of the river.

4. What economic consequence does the sentimental pastoral ideal engender?
(a) Low taxes.
(b) Regulation of speculative investments.
(c) Farm subsidies.
(d) Tariffs on imported manufactured goods.

5. What threat to the country's moral superiority had developed by Jefferson's time?
(a) Public transit.
(b) Enclosure laws.
(c) Slavery.
(d) The end of slavery.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many Americans lived on farms by the end of the 19th century?

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

3. What did Beverly describe as the paradox of existence in the New World?

4. Where was Hawthorne when he wrote the piece Marx analyzed?

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

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