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

2. The democratic writer assumes that man is what?
(a) Logical.
(b) Powerful.
(c) Thinking.
(d) Powerless.

3. What class, in America, will eventually gain the upper hand in their struggles?
(a) The scholarly class.
(b) The poor class.
(c) The aristocratic class.
(d) The working class.

4. Democracy tightens social ties as it loosens what?
(a) Social bonds.
(b) Moral bonds.
(c) Religious bonds.
(d) Familial bonds.

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 monarchy.
(c) The wealthy.
(d) A small but active minority.

Short Answer Questions

1. In a monarchic regime, political positions and the bulk of the wealth are reserved for whom?

2. In what does de Tocqueville say American writers find poetry?

3. In de Tocqueville's observations, the patriotism of Americans is more akin to cupidity than to what?

4. According to de Tocqueville, governments typically perish because they lead their country into a state of anarchy or what?

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

(see the answer key)

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