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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. Associations participate in doing what for the public?
(a) Providing education on issues.
(b) Providing organization on issues.
(c) Providing advice on issues.
(d) Providing an outlet for issues.

2. In de Tocqueville's analysis, sovereignty flows in what direction?
(a) From the state to the people.
(b) From the people to the military.
(c) From the people to the state.
(d) From the federal government to the state.

3. What general attitude does de Tocqueville purport that Americans have towards each other?
(a) Distant.
(b) Acrimonious.
(c) Friendly.
(d) Privileged.

4. De Tocqueville believes that there is unlikely to be a ______________ in the United States.
(a) Great economic revolution.
(b) Great moral revolution.
(c) Great social revolution.
(d) Great political revolution.

5. The relationship of the American aristocrat and workman is likened to a traditional aristocrat and what, according to de Tocqueville?
(a) Peasants.
(b) Knights.
(c) Slaves.
(d) Servants.

Short Answer Questions

1. In America, de Tocqueville observes that _____________ links the aristocrat and the workman.

2. What kind of impact does the American press have on its people?

3. According to de Tocqueville, comfort and other earthly pleasures are easily satisfied with what?

4. Political associations bring together whom?

5. What arm of the government, even in a democracy, tends to seek out war in de Tocqueville's observations?

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