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

2. When was that work written, which Barlowe likely influenced--and which also influenced Shakespeare in its description of a pastoral paradise?
(a) 1584.
(b) 1609.
(c) 1590.
(d) 1650.

3. When did Thomas Jefferson publish his Notes on Virginia?
(a) 1803.
(b) 1781.
(c) 1789.
(d) 1776.

4. Who was Tench Coxe?
(a) A Philadelphia merchant.
(b) A Philadelphia inventor and statesman.
(c) A New York financier.
(d) A Boston statesman.

5. What part of man remained free of industrialism, in Carlyle's view?
(a) His mind.
(b) His spirit.
(c) None of him.
(d) His eyes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does fire symbolize in Hawthorne's The Unpardonable Sin?

2. What criticism did Carlyle make of American industrialism?

3. What would men of reason provide in Emerson's vision?

4. What do Americans abandon when they are under the influence of the sentimental pastoral ideal?

5. How had the Enlightenment changed pastoral thought, in Marx's account?

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