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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Volume 2, Part 1: Chapter 13-21.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What feeds on ignorance, according to the Puritans' religious views?
(a) The devil.
(b) Aristocracy.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Stupidity.

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

4. De Tocqueville writes that Americans tend to reject all external human authority and rely, instead, on what?
(a) Philosophical evidence.
(b) Public opinion.
(c) Historical evidence.
(d) Minority opinion.

5. What kind of literature does America produce?
(a) Reports.
(b) Romantic.
(c) Novels.
(d) Journalistic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lawyers are connected to the aristocracy by their personal interest and what?

2. What type of regime did de Tocqueville study in America?

3. Politically, the New World has never experienced what?

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

5. Equality among people triggers innovation and intellectual what, in de Tocqueville's observations?

(see the answer key)

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