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

2. De Tocqueville observes that, while traveling outside their own country, Americans tend to travel with signs associated with _______________?
(a) Higher ranked scholarly pursuits.
(b) Higher ranked industrial activities.
(c) Higher ranked aristocrats.
(d) Higher ranked political offices.

3. What type of people are educated and serve to bring reason to debates through logic?
(a) Lawyers.
(b) Critics.
(c) Politicians.
(d) Statesmen.

4. In a monarchic regime, political positions and the bulk of the wealth are reserved for whom?
(a) The members of the monarchy and their friends.
(b) The members of the aristocratic majority.
(c) The members of the monarchy.
(d) The members of the aristocratic minority.

5. "A priori" means what?
(a) Knowledge derived from a moral source.
(b) Knowledge without actual experience.
(c) Knowledge from first-hand experience.
(d) The first knowledge.

Short Answer Questions

1. The people in a democracy instinctively acknowledge that the interest of the many is more valuable than that of whom?

2. Equality of conditions means there are no a priori what in America?

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

4. Cupidity means what?

5. Democratic regimes value prosperity over what?

(see the answer key)

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