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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. Cupidity means what?
(a) A strong desire, normally for participation.
(b) A strong desire, normally for material things.
(c) A strong desire, normally for wealth.
(d) A strong desire, normally for achievement.

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

3. What type of person does de Tocqueville say the American writer sees himself as?
(a) Thinker.
(b) Entrepreneur.
(c) Scholar.
(d) Enlightened.

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

5. In a democracy, people take a special interest in the affairs of the state in order to do what?
(a) Participate in power and its outcomes.
(b) Participate in the political process.
(c) Be one of the people in power.
(d) Obtain a political position.

Short Answer Questions

1. Democratic regimes value what over heroism?

2. The institutions of the United States tend to bring together what type of people?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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