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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. How had the Enlightenment changed pastoral thought, in Marx's account?
(a) Engineers could shape nature more efficiently.
(b) Nature commanded new respect.
(c) Colonization had subdued the natives and killed off predatory animals.
(d) Factories had subjugated nature.

2. What literary work did Barlowe echo with his account of his travels?
(a) Arcadia.
(b) The Iliad.
(c) Paradise Lost.
(d) Paradise Regained.

3. How do Americans express their sentimental pastoral ideal?
(a) By building cities.
(b) By making green spaces.
(c) By mining resources.
(d) By conserving.

4. How have the relationships between the city and country changed in American industrial pastoralism?
(a) They are both monetized.
(b) They are no longer interdependent.
(c) They are no longer exclusive.
(d) They are both reinvented by machines.

5. What does Ishmael symbolize, in Marx's interpretation of Moby Dick?
(a) The victim of the whale's aggression.
(b) The middleman between nature and society.
(c) The representative of nature.
(d) The prophet to warn people against destroying nature.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did Americans see westward expansion, in Marx's account?

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

4. What did the settlers find appealing about the New World?

5. What did Emerson say that science and technology could serve?

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