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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. Democratic regimes value prosperity over what?
(a) Contributions.
(b) Brilliance.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Change.

3. Democracy promotes spending energy on what types of tasks?
(a) Artistic.
(b) Religious.
(c) Intellectual.
(d) Material.

4. Political associations bring together whom?
(a) The feelings and opinions of men.
(b) The political elite.
(c) The feelings and opinion of the voters.
(d) The electorate.

5. What type of person does de Tocqueville say the American writer sees himself as?
(a) Scholar.
(b) Thinker.
(c) Enlightened.
(d) Entrepreneur.

Short Answer Questions

1. De Tocqueville observes that judges are not elected, but are what?

2. What kind of literature does America produce?

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

4. To a democratic writer, truth cannot emanate from a human simply because the human does what?

5. What does de Tocqeville say is linked to--but not the same as--liberty?

(see the answer key)

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