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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. Whom does Marx credit with predicting all the evils of industrialism?
(a) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(b) Thomas Jefferson.
(c) John Orvis.
(d) Daniel Webster.

2. What aspects of European civilization were the Virginia settlers glad to leave behind, in Beverly's history?
(a) Vanities and conflicts over property.
(b) Suppression of religious expression.
(c) Plagues and uncertainty over medical treatment.
(d) Dogmas and conflicts over religion.

3. What is Ishmael's task, in Marx's description of Melville's vision in Moby Dick?
(a) To kill the white whale.
(b) To reconcile nature and society.
(c) To restrain Ahab.
(d) To save the ship.

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

5. What feature of modern society came into existence with American industrialism?
(a) Total warfare.
(b) Unionization.
(c) Strikes and riots.
(d) Laissez-fair class structure.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What conclusion about technology does the narrator reach at the end of Twain's Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court?

3. Who typically espouses the sentimental pastoral ideal?

4. What does Marx say Beverly felt about the New World, by the end of his history?

5. What human structure did Barlowe describe America in terms of?

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