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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Volume 1, Chapter 14-18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In times of peace, what has more power than the President?
(a) Senate.
(b) Legislature.
(c) Judiciary.
(d) Executive branch.

2. Democratic regimes will value general well-being over what?
(a) Extraordinary wealth of the few.
(b) Extraordinary wealth of the ruling class.
(c) Wealth of the majority.
(d) Wealth of the minority.

3. De Tocqueville believes that there must be complete freedom of what?
(a) Press and religion.
(b) Speech, religion, and press.
(c) Speech and press.
(d) Speech and religion.

4. Judges are accountable to what?
(a) The laws they are representing.
(b) The people who elected them.
(c) The laws they make.
(d) The people who appointed them.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to de Tocqueville, governments typically perish because they lead their country into a state of anarchy or what?

2. What deals with the affairs of the people and is bound to be turbulent and uncertain?

3. Lawyers are connected to the aristocracy by their personal interest and what?

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

5. On what type of sovereignty does democracy rely?

(see the answer key)

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