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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 is the second stage of life that Marx describes through Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?
(a) Return to the city.
(b) Life in the city.
(c) Life in nature.
(d) Return to nature.
2. What conclusion about technology does the narrator reach at the end of Twain's Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court?
(a) Primitive human psychology is inescapable.
(b) Progress changes the course of human nature.
(c) Nature ultimately conquered industrial man.
(d) Society's benefits do not outweigh its costs.
3. What did Emerson originally propose in his philosophy?
(a) Immersion in nature.
(b) Immersion in society.
(c) Immersion in literature.
(d) Immersion in science.
4. What would people live on, in Gonzalo's ideal world?
(a) Money from exports.
(b) Imported grain.
(c) Natives' produce.
(d) Nature's bounty.
5. What effect does fire have in Hawthorne's The Unpardonable Sin?
(a) It spreads light into the wilderness.
(b) It drives factories and great productivity.
(c) It brings religion to people.
(d) It destroys an everyman.
Short Answer Questions
1. What desire does Marx describe as the opposite of Barlowe's view?
2. What does Marx say Thoreau wanted people to do in nature?
3. What secondary plot does Marx see as important for his purposes?
4. What human structure did Barlowe describe America in terms of?
5. What symbolic statement does Marx say Twain made in the raft being destroyed in Huckleberry Finn?
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