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

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

3. To a democratic writer, truth cannot emanate from a human simply because the human does what?
(a) Is of the majority.
(b) Exists.
(c) Has logic.
(d) Holds power.

4. Instead of being driven by man, events--according to a democratic writer--are driven by what?
(a) Fate or sheer necessity.
(b) Providence or sheer necessity.
(c) Fate or irresistable forces.
(d) Providence or irresistible forces.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Democratic regimes will value general well-being over what?

2. The tendency of Americans to behave differently towards outsiders is sometimes known as what?

3. The American historian holds individuals accountable for what?

4. Lawyers are connected to the aristocracy by their personal interest and what?

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

(see the answer key)

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