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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) Scholar.
(b) Enlightened.
(c) Thinker.
(d) Entrepreneur.

2. Lawyers are connected to the aristocracy by their personal interest and what?
(a) Friends.
(b) Education.
(c) Culture.
(d) Reasoning.

3. Democratic regimes value prosperity over what?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Brilliance.
(c) Contributions.
(d) Change.

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

5. Democracy influences the citizens' political views and what other types of views?
(a) Social.
(b) Moral.
(c) Religious.
(d) Industrial.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. A democracy will not purposely legislate against the good of its what?

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

4. Of what does de Tocqueville state that the United States does not produce a valuable body?

5. De Tocqueville believes that the democratic writer has less to write about, but the writings are ________, when compared to aristocratic writings.

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