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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. America was depicted as a paradise that was also what, in Marx's account?
(a) A place of redemption.
(b) A place of hardship.
(c) A refuge.
(d) A source for good in the Old World.

2. How did Barlowe describe the indigenous people he encountered?
(a) As simple and virtuous.
(b) As evil and plotting.
(c) As barbaric and cruel.
(d) As naïve and untrustworthy.

3. What was unique about American manufacturing, in Coxe's view?
(a) It presented enormous economic opportunities.
(b) Markets were waiting for American goods.
(c) The raw materials were limitless.
(d) The environment would keep it healthy.

4. How were frontiersmen typically portrayed by easterners in Jefferson's time?
(a) As untamed.
(b) As dilettantes.
(c) As epicures.
(d) As civilizing agents.

5. What does Marx say is unique about pastoralism in the industrial age in America?
(a) Southern plantations were the first farms to perform agriculture on an industrial scale.
(b) People began to be able to visit the country from the city.
(c) The railroad blurred the boundary between city and country.
(d) People stopped living on farms in the late 1700s.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sources does Marx suppose Shakespeare read for 'The Tempest'?

2. What did the new world fail to offer newcomers, in typical accounts?

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

4. What did Hawthorne describe in the piece Marx analyzed?

5. How does Marx say most American writers described industrial expansion?

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