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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. Judges are accountable to what?
(a) The laws they make.
(b) The people who elected them.
(c) The laws they are representing.
(d) The people who appointed them.

2. What type of regime did de Tocqueville study in America?
(a) Populacity.
(b) Aristocracy.
(c) Theocracy.
(d) Democracy.

3. The American historian holds individuals accountable for what?
(a) Major choices.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Everything.
(d) Major events.

4. De Tocqueville believes that religion provides the people of America with a set of beliefs that does what?
(a) Goes without justification or justice.
(b) Goes without reason or explanation.
(c) Goes without logic or explanation.
(d) Goes without justification or explanation.

5. Isolation increases the dangers of what?
(a) Absolute power.
(b) Tyranny.
(c) A dangerous leader.
(d) Mediocrity.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what does de Tocqueville believe aristocrats are busy writing?

2. In de Tocqueville's observations, aristocratic societies make countless _____________ available between man and God.

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

4. Who does de Tocqueville believe seeks exclusive comfort?

5. Power is divided between what two entities in the United States?

(see the answer key)

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