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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. Which characters are engaged in the final struggle in Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?
(a) Gonzalo and Prospero.
(b) Ferdinand and Miranda.
(c) Miranda and Caliban.
(d) Gonzalo and Ferdinand.

2. When did a uniquely American pastoral image emerge?
(a) Seventeenth century.
(b) Eighteenth century.
(c) Nineteenth century.
(d) At colonization.

3. What did colonists find in America?
(a) Civilized people they could convert to Christianity.
(b) A desert they could transform into a garden.
(c) Infrastructure they could usurp from the natives.
(d) Virgin land.

4. How do Americans express their sentimental pastoral ideal?
(a) By conserving.
(b) By making green spaces.
(c) By mining resources.
(d) By building cities.

5. What effect does fire have in Hawthorne's The Unpardonable Sin?
(a) It destroys an everyman.
(b) It spreads light into the wilderness.
(c) It brings religion to people.
(d) It drives factories and great productivity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the relationship between industrialism and pastoralism?

2. What does Marx say Thoreau wanted people to do in nature?

3. What does the end of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' demonstrate, in Marx's interpretation?

4. What form of art had reached a peak in Thomas Jefferson's time?

5. When did complex pastoral ideology come into existence?

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