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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. A democracy will not purposely legislate against the good of its what?
(a) People.
(b) Voters.
(c) Minority.
(d) Majority.

2. On what type of sovereignty does democracy rely?
(a) Absolute.
(b) Majority.
(c) Minority.
(d) Partial.

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

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

5. The people in a democracy instinctively acknowledge that the interest of the many is more valuable than that of whom?
(a) A privileged few.
(b) The wealthy.
(c) A small but active minority.
(d) The monarchy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of literature does America produce?

3. De Tocqueville believes that Americans have little means of discussing opinions outside the range of those entertained by whom?

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

5. What general attitude does de Tocqueville purport that Americans have towards each other?

(see the answer key)

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