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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Volume 2, Part 2: Chapter 1-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Before the American Revolution, what were the two great political parties?
(a) The Federalist and the State parties.
(b) The Federalist and the Anti-Federalist parties.
(c) The Federalist and the Republican parties.
(d) The Federalist and the Democratic parties.

2. About what does de Tocqueville believe aristocrats are busy writing?
(a) Unique nations.
(b) Mundane matters.
(c) Humankind.
(d) Life.

3. Who gets the powers not enumerated to the federal government?
(a) The judiciary.
(b) The states.
(c) The people.
(d) The townships.

4. Judges are accountable to what?
(a) The people who elected them.
(b) The laws they are representing.
(c) The people who appointed them.
(d) The laws they make.

5. In what does de Tocqueville say American writers find poetry?
(a) Intellect.
(b) The nation.
(c) Passion.
(d) The mundane.

Short Answer Questions

1. The democratic writer assumes that man is what?

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

3. De Tocqueville believes that people must exercise their political freedom by what?

4. The balancing act that the three branches of government perform on each other is referred to as what?

5. Because the settlers imported most of their technical knowledge, when they got to America they only had to do what?

(see the answer key)

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