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

2. What 'sealed the fate' of American industrialism, according to Marx?
(a) Machine tools.
(b) Standardized parts.
(c) The railroad.
(d) The cotton gin.

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

4. What does Marx say is the central theme of pastoral literature?
(a) The imperative to transform nature.
(b) The desire to merge with nature.
(c) The futility of fighting nature.
(d) The interruption of woodland peace.

5. What is the second stage of life that Marx describes through Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?
(a) Return to the city.
(b) Return to nature.
(c) Life in nature.
(d) Life in the city.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the settlers find appealing about the New World?

2. What was Daniel Webster's take on industrialism?

3. Why does Marx say that machines could be welcomed into America?

4. What did Thoreau conclude as a result of his time at Walden?

5. What were the keys to the American landscape, in the views that were the opposite of Barlowe's?

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