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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 allowed America to preserve Jeffersonian ideals for 100 years after Jefferson wrote about them?
(a) Slow pace of technological development.
(b) A frontier to expand into.
(c) Absence of foreign threats.
(d) Peace with natives.

2. How did Jefferson describe the representative man in Notes on Virginia?
(a) An inventive entrepreneur.
(b) A powerful industrialist.
(c) An industrious, independent farmer.
(d) A virtuous man of nature.

3. What would men of reason provide in Emerson's vision?
(a) Arts.
(b) Science.
(c) Leadership.
(d) Political strife.

4. What would people live on, in Gonzalo's ideal world?
(a) Imported grain.
(b) Nature's bounty.
(c) Money from exports.
(d) Natives' produce.

5. When did Thomas Jefferson publish his Notes on Virginia?
(a) 1803.
(b) 1776.
(c) 1789.
(d) 1781.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was man supposed to return to nature, in Thoreau's vision?

2. What would men of understanding provide in Emerson's vision?

3. How did Thoreau describe modern man?

4. How did Arthur Barlowe describe America?

5. What contradiction does Marx say is Melville's true theme in Moby Dick?

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