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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 did colonists find in America?
(a) Civilized people they could convert to Christianity.
(b) Virgin land.
(c) Infrastructure they could usurp from the natives.
(d) A desert they could transform into a garden.

2. What does Marx say is the leading image of industrialism?
(a) The factory.
(b) The cotton gin.
(c) The steam locomotive.
(d) The steamship.

3. When did Robert Beverly write his history of Virginia?
(a) 1703.
(b) 1620.
(c) 1607.
(d) 1690.

4. What does Marx say Beverly felt about the New World, by the end of his history?
(a) Determined.
(b) Cautiously optimistic.
(c) Disappointed.
(d) Elated.

5. What did Daniel Webster believe the railroad would do for America?
(a) Destroy the traditions.
(b) Terrify the livestock.
(c) Unify the people.
(d) Corrupt the youth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the ocean symbolize in Melville's Moby Dick?

2. When did the assault on American pastoralism begin, in Marx's account?

3. What 'sealed the fate' of American industrialism, according to Marx?

4. In what art does Marx see pastoral ideology contributing to a more realistic outcome for American society?

5. What aspects of European civilization were the Virginia settlers glad to leave behind, in Beverly's history?

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