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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. De Tocqueville observed that Americans like to explain everything as a result of human what?
(a) Innovation.
(b) Bravery.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Pride.
2. According to de Tocqueville, in America men obey what?
(a) Divine authority.
(b) Justice and laws.
(c) God.
(d) Secular authority.
3. De Tocqueville believes that there must be complete freedom of what?
(a) Speech and religion.
(b) Press and religion.
(c) Speech, religion, and press.
(d) Speech and press.
4. Democracy promotes spending energy on what types of tasks?
(a) Intellectual.
(b) Religious.
(c) Material.
(d) Artistic.
5. 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.
Short Answer Questions
1. On what type of sovereignty does democracy rely?
2. In times of peace, what has more power than the President?
3. What type of regime did de Tocqueville study in America?
4. About what does de Tocqueville believe aristocrats are busy writing?
5. What type of person does de Tocqueville say the American writer sees himself as?
Short Essay Questions
1. The communities of New England set the foundation of a democratic society based on what?
2. Why, according to de Tocqueville, does the American writer write?
3. What does de Tocqueville believe is the logic that is followed when people adopt the authority of the majority?
4. After the American Revolutionary war, the government defined, very precisely, the powers that belonged to whom?
5. According to the author, what is the reason free people obey laws?
6. Americans want to explain everything through human intelligence and leave the rest to be explained by what, according to de Tocqueville?
7. What is the unusual political power, based on the Constitution, that the American judicial system holds?
8. What does de Tocqueville analyze in his book?
9. What does equality among the people trigger, in addition to innovation, according to de Tocqueville?
10. De Tocqueville believes that political parties are what to democratic societies?
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