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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. Associations participate in doing what for the public?
(a) Providing an outlet for issues.
(b) Providing advice on issues.
(c) Providing education on issues.
(d) Providing organization on issues.

2. Equality among people triggers innovation and intellectual what, in de Tocqueville's observations?
(a) Mediocrity.
(b) Passivity.
(c) Dullness.
(d) Rigidity.

3. Historians in the United States believe that nations are driven by what?
(a) Particular individuals.
(b) Time.
(c) Collective events.
(d) Singular events.

4. Political associations exist at the national level and are most effective at what level?
(a) The state level.
(b) The township level.
(c) The local level.
(d) The national level.

5. De Tocqueville observes that judges are not elected, but are what?
(a) Appointed.
(b) Installed.
(c) Called.
(d) Endowed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an immediate danger to democracy?

2. How does de Tocqueville characterize political parties?

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

4. Instead of being driven by man, events--according to a democratic writer--are driven by what?

5. In America, citizens have a right to what kind of associations?

(see the answer key)

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