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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Volume 2, Part 3: Chapter 1-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does de Tocqueville characterize political parties?
(a) As unnecessary and evil.
(b) As unnecessary and good.
(c) As necessary and good.
(d) As necessary but evil.

2. Democracy promotes spending energy on what types of tasks?
(a) Religious.
(b) Artistic.
(c) Intellectual.
(d) Material.

3. Equality of conditions means there are no a priori what in America?
(a) Points of view.
(b) Influences.
(c) Ideas.
(d) Prejudices.

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

5. What type of person does de Tocqueville say the American writer sees himself as?
(a) Enlightened.
(b) Thinker.
(c) Entrepreneur.
(d) Scholar.

Short Answer Questions

1. The institutions of the United States tend to bring together what type of people?

2. What kind of regime did the people of France and England live in?

3. In a monarchy, what is as volatile as the perceived superiority of the state?

4. In America, what type of rank cannot be distinguished immediately?

5. 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.

(see the answer key)

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