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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 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 both reinvented by machines.
(d) They are no longer exclusive.

2. What does fire symbolize in Hawthorne's The Unpardonable Sin?
(a) The demonic element in factories.
(b) Man's desire for progress.
(c) Intellect.
(d) Chaotic forces of nature.

3. For what occasion did Jefferson write his Notes on Virginia?
(a) At a French Diplomat's request.
(b) For leisure.
(c) Upon his travels to Europe.
(d) As an inventory when he was governor.

4. How did Thoreau describe modern man?
(a) Poised at the boundary between nature and industry.
(b) Free in the wilderness.
(c) Unhappy in factories.
(d) Torn apart by his desires.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Marx writes that America offered men a middle state between what and what in the eighteenth century?

2. Who was Tench Coxe?

3. When did complex pastoral ideology come into existence?

4. What does the Pequod symbolize in Melville's Moby Dick?

5. How did Barlowe describe the indigenous people he encountered?

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