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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. When was man supposed to return to nature, in Thoreau's vision?
(a) For temporary respites.
(b) On weekends.
(c) For permanent residence.
(d) He should keep nature alive in his cities.

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

3. What does the end of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' demonstrate, in Marx's interpretation?
(a) Balance between men and women.
(b) Justice in righting old wrongs.
(c) Fairness in dividing territory.
(d) Balance between man and nature.

4. What feeling characterized the beginning of Mark Twain's writing career?
(a) Lamentation about the death of Indian cultures.
(b) Fear about the consequences of the railroad.
(c) Nostalgia for the old days on the Mississippi.
(d) Optimism about industrial expansion into the midwest.

5. What did Beverly describe as the paradox of existence in the New World?
(a) Settlers wanted a paradise, but replicated their towns and government.
(b) Whites wanted peace with the natives, but took their land to start wars.
(c) Natives wanted progress, but then they hated themselves.
(d) Settlers brought progress, but the natives didn't want it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Huck Finn lamenting at the beginning of Huckleberry Finn?

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

3. What should man do in nature, in Thoreau's vision?

4. How had the Enlightenment changed pastoral thought, in Marx's account?

5. How does Marx characterize Prospero and members of the court?

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