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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Volume 2, Part 2: Chapter 10-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to de Tocqueville, total equality of people's condition would only be possible in a society where freedom is what?
(a) Liberty.
(b) Relative.
(c) Absolute.
(d) Ideal.

2. Democracy is a catalyst for what?
(a) Change.
(b) Industry.
(c) Economic growth.
(d) Material wealth.

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

4. What is one of the two important tools of American democracy?
(a) Printed media.
(b) Televised media.
(c) Spoken words.
(d) Political media.

5. De Tocqueville believes that there must be complete freedom of what?
(a) Speech and press.
(b) Speech and religion.
(c) Press and religion.
(d) Speech, religion, and press.

Short Answer Questions

1. In a traditional aristocracy, de Tocqueville believes that the aristocrat was linked to their underlings by what?

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

3. De Tocqueville believes that the democratic writer has less to write about, but the writings are ________, when compared to aristocratic writings.

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

5. What year was de Tocqueville's voyage to the United States?

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