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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Volume 2, Part 3: Chapter 14-26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. De Tocqueville states that the aristocracy in America is different from traditional aristocracies because the members of the class do not share what?
(a) Interests.
(b) Political goals.
(c) Money.
(d) Family relationships.

2. What class, in America, will eventually gain the upper hand in their struggles?
(a) The poor class.
(b) The aristocratic class.
(c) The scholarly class.
(d) The working class.

3. Historians in the United States believe that nations are driven by what?
(a) Collective events.
(b) Singular events.
(c) Particular individuals.
(d) Time.

4. The institutions of the United States tend to bring together what type of people?
(a) The scholarly people.
(b) People of all ranks.
(c) People of aristocratic rank.
(d) The political elite.

5. De Tocqueville believes that revolutions are generally the result of the people's desire to eliminate what?
(a) Excesses of the governing class.
(b) Inequalities.
(c) Restraints on liberty.
(d) Restraints on freedom.

Short Answer Questions

1. Democracy promotes spending energy on what types of tasks?

2. Political associations combat what?

3. De Tocqueville believes that there is unlikely to be a ______________ in the United States.

4. A democracy will not purposely legislate against the good of its what?

5. Isolation increases the dangers of what?

(see the answer key)

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