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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. The institutions of the United States tend to bring together what type of people?
(a) People of all ranks.
(b) People of aristocratic rank.
(c) The scholarly people.
(d) The political elite.

2. The American historian holds individuals accountable for what?
(a) Everything.
(b) Major events.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Major choices.

3. De Tocqueville writes that Americans tend to reject all external human authority and rely, instead, on what?
(a) Philosophical evidence.
(b) Historical evidence.
(c) Public opinion.
(d) Minority opinion.

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

5. In de Tocqueville's observations, the economic class of an individual may confer on him several privileges, but there are no _______________ attached to those privileges.
(a) Requirements.
(b) Responsibilities.
(c) Rights.
(d) Ideals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of people are educated and serve to bring reason to debates through logic?

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

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

4. What reason does de Tocqueville supply for what Americans read, other than to stay informed?

5. Democratic regimes value what over heroism?

(see the answer key)

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