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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. De Tocqueville believes that Americans have little means of discussing opinions outside the range of those entertained by whom?
(a) The majority.
(b) The vocal minority.
(c) Those in political power.
(d) The ruling class.

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

3. The people in a democracy instinctively acknowledge that the interest of the many is more valuable than that of whom?
(a) The wealthy.
(b) A small but active minority.
(c) The monarchy.
(d) A privileged few.

4. Isolation increases the dangers of what?
(a) Mediocrity.
(b) Absolute power.
(c) A dangerous leader.
(d) Tyranny.

5. De Tocqueville believes that democracy provides an authority of its own by replacing the certitudes of the intellectual with what?
(a) The certitudes of the majority.
(b) The certitudes of the political elite.
(c) The certitudes of the conservatives.
(d) The certitudes of the center.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of people are educated and serve to bring reason to debates through logic?

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

3. What is one of the best safeguards against potential tyranny of the majority in America?

4. In a monarchy, what is as volatile as the perceived superiority of the state?

5. In a democracy, people take a special interest in the affairs of the state in order to do what?

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