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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. In a democracy, people take a special interest in the affairs of the state in order to do what?
(a) Participate in the political process.
(b) Participate in power and its outcomes.
(c) Obtain a political position.
(d) Be one of the people in power.

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

3. By excluding minorities from power, what does de Tocqueville believe will happen?
(a) The foundation of democracy will be endangered.
(b) The minority will revolt against the majority.
(c) A new type of democratic rule will emerge.
(d) The foundations of the Constitution will be violated.

4. Religion and the constant drive for ___________ are the main barriers to the development of independent arts and science in the United States, according to de Tocqueville.
(a) Comfort
(b) Material wealth.
(c) Cupidity.
(d) Economic progress.

5. When can a judge refuse to enforce a law?
(a) When the law in unconstitutional.
(b) When they do not agree with the law.
(c) When the people they are representing do not like the law.
(d) When they do not like the law.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does de Tocqueville observe that the principle of equality has created an extraordinary sense of in the American people?

2. Because the settlers imported most of their technical knowledge, when they got to America they only had to do what?

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

4. What is one of the two important tools of American democracy?

5. In de Tocqueville's analysis, sovereignty flows in what direction?

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