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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. On what type of sovereignty does democracy rely?
(a) Partial.
(b) Minority.
(c) Majority.
(d) Absolute.

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

3. Democracies tend to value what over liberty?
(a) Equality.
(b) Rights.
(c) Political association.
(d) Freedom.

4. Compared to an aristocratic government ruled by an elite administration, democracy allows for what?
(a) Concentration of wealth.
(b) More powerful governance.
(c) Concentration of power.
(d) Weaker governance.

5. What is one of the two important tools of American democracy?
(a) Political media.
(b) Printed media.
(c) Spoken words.
(d) Televised media.

Short Answer Questions

1. Isolation increases the dangers of what?

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

3. The right of political association originally came from where?

4. In what does de Tocqueville say American writers find poetry?

5. How is scientific research being driven in America at the time de Tocqueville is observing American democracy?

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