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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 was the effect of industrialism in Thoreau's vision?
(a) Man had become a slave to his tools.
(b) Military developments had made technology deadlier than ever.
(c) Industry had generated enormous wealth.
(d) Machines had improved daily life for millions.

2. How did Coxe's vision for industrialism intersect with pastoralism?
(a) Coxe predicted that industries would leave dead places in the environment when they collapsed.
(b) Coxe thought that factories would blight the landscape.
(c) Coxe thought that America's environment would make the factory a pastoral place.
(d) Coxe prophesied that extractive industries would ruin the landscape.

3. What did Jefferson want to keep in Europe?
(a) Finance.
(b) Government.
(c) Slavery.
(d) Manufacturing.

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

5. What was it that Jefferson described as a threat to the moral center of democracy?
(a) European military power.
(b) Industrialism.
(c) Native Americans.
(d) Corruption.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does fire symbolize in Hawthorne's The Unpardonable Sin?

2. What did Henry Adams envision as the consequence of technology?

3. What allowed America to preserve Jeffersonian ideals for 100 years after Jefferson wrote about them?

4. What did Jefferson ultimately conclude about industrialism?

5. How do Americans express their sentimental pastoral ideal?

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