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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 does Marx say is the 'sentimental' pastoral ideal?
(a) Green, rural lifestyle.
(b) Harnessing natural resources.
(c) The savages' harmony with nature.
(d) Domesticating wild things.

2. What did Coxe contrast manufacturing with?
(a) Self-reliance.
(b) Importation.
(c) The trades.
(d) Cottage industry.

3. What effect does Marx say Emerson foresaw for industrialism?
(a) Devaluation of the worker in the market.
(b) Fulfillment of the worker in his work.
(c) Detachment of the worker from his work.
(d) Control of the worker in his working environment.

4. In Jefferson's time, how did the eastern farmers come to see nature, as a result of their work?
(a) As a raw material.
(b) As a domestic industry.
(c) As a new nature.
(d) As an improved nature.

5. What did Jefferson ultimately conclude about industrialism?
(a) That it had to be aligned with public virtues.
(b) That it had to balance efficiencies with creating employment opportunities.
(c) That it had to be developed.
(d) That it had to be suppressed.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the second reaction Marx describes to industrialism?

4. What threat to the country's moral superiority had developed by Jefferson's time?

5. What did Jefferson want to keep in Europe?

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