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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 does de Tocqueville say American workers constantly struggle with their masters for?
(a) Better job transferability.
(b) More freedom.
(c) More skill training.
(d) Higher wages.

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

3. When American writers exaggerate the importance of a subject, de Tocqueville says it gets lost in what?
(a) Space.
(b) Oblivion.
(c) The clouds.
(d) The world.

4. De Tocqueville observes that, while traveling outside their own country, Americans tend to travel with signs associated with _______________?
(a) Higher ranked scholarly pursuits.
(b) Higher ranked aristocrats.
(c) Higher ranked industrial activities.
(d) Higher ranked political offices.

5. In America, what type of rank cannot be distinguished immediately?
(a) Societal rank.
(b) Political rank.
(c) Economic rank.
(d) Military rank.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In America, young men are given freedom when they reach what age?

3. American literature is made up of the two extremes of what, according to de Tocqueville?

4. 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.

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

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