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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. Lawyers are connected to the aristocracy by their personal interest and what?
(a) Culture.
(b) Friends.
(c) Education.
(d) Reasoning.

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

3. Decentralization of the governmental administration has multiplied what?
(a) Opinions.
(b) Newspapers.
(c) Political associations.
(d) Journalists.

4. De Tocqueville believes that people must exercise their political freedom by what?
(a) Behaving as if they are free.
(b) Depending on each other.
(c) Participating in the process.
(d) Doing what they want to do.

5. The right of political association originally came from where?
(a) England.
(b) Colonists.
(c) France.
(d) Puritans.

Short Answer Questions

1. Freedom of the press is described as what type of weapon?

2. By excluding minorities from power, what does de Tocqueville believe will happen?

3. In times of peace, what has more power than the President?

4. De Tocqueville believes that Americans have little means of discussing opinions outside the range of those entertained by whom?

5. De Tocqueville believes that educated Americans read what type of literature?

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