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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 other American literature does Marx say exemplifies the three-stage theme he identified in Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?
(a) Twain's Huckleberry Finn.
(b) Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher.
(c) Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.
(d) Morrison's Beloved.

2. How did Americans see westward expansion, in Marx's account?
(a) As a form of corruption.
(b) As a form of progress.
(c) As a destruction of the landscape.
(d) As a crime against Indians.

3. What desire does Marx describe as the opposite of Barlowe's view?
(a) The desire to tame the landscape.
(b) The desire to make the earth productive.
(c) The desire to convert the savages.
(d) The desire to know the earth mystically.

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

5. What do liberal thinkers say the sentimental pastoral ideal results in, according to Marx?
(a) Peace movements.
(b) Industrial developments.
(c) Ignorance and apathy.
(d) Reactionary philosophy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Marx writes that America offered men a middle state between what and what in the eighteenth century?

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

3. How does industrialism devalue man, in Carlyle's opinion?

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

5. What would manufacturing do for America, in Coxe's estimation?

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