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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 were the keys to the American landscape, in the views that were the opposite of Barlowe's?
(a) Generosity and sharing.
(b) Hard work and sacrifice.
(c) Conservation and reservations.
(d) Development and expansion.

2. What virtues would the Jeffersonian man strike a balance between?
(a) Nature and civility.
(b) Literature and action.
(c) Poetry and technology.
(d) Urbaneness and wilderness.

3. Marx writes that America offered men a middle state between what and what in the eighteenth century?
(a) Corruption and innocence.
(b) Civilization and primitive life.
(c) Wilderness and domestication.
(d) Comfort and exploration.

4. What did Emerson say that science and technology could serve?
(a) Powerless men.
(b) Corrupt men.
(c) A destructive god.
(d) A rural ideal.

5. What does the Pequod symbolize in Melville's Moby Dick?
(a) Spiritual degradation.
(b) Elemental nature.
(c) Modern society.
(d) Industry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marx say is unique about pastoralism in the industrial age in America?

2. How were frontiersmen typically portrayed by easterners in Jefferson's time?

3. What was Jefferson's ideal of equality democracy founded on?

4. When did complex pastoral ideology come into existence?

5. What is a consequence of the sentimental pastoral ideal?

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