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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Volume 2, Part 3: Chapter 1-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what does de Tocqueville state that the United States does not produce a valuable body?
(a) Science.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Literature.

2. On what type of sovereignty does democracy rely?
(a) Minority.
(b) Absolute.
(c) Partial.
(d) Majority.

3. The tendency of Americans to behave differently towards outsiders is sometimes known as what?
(a) Archeophobia.
(b) Isolationism.
(c) Xenophobia.
(d) Alienation.

4. Aristocratic regimes in Europe put the wealth into the hands of whom?
(a) The monarch.
(b) The ennobled.
(c) The few.
(d) The many.

5. In de Tocqueville's observations, aristocratic societies make countless _____________ available between man and God.
(a) Intermediaries.
(b) Forces.
(c) Sources.
(d) Methods of communication.

Short Answer Questions

1. Democratic regimes value prosperity over what?

2. American literature is made up of the two extremes of what, according to de Tocqueville?

3. To a democratic writer, truth cannot emanate from a human simply because the human does what?

4. Democracy tightens social ties as it loosens what?

5. What general attitude does de Tocqueville purport that Americans have towards each other?

(see the answer key)

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