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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Volume 2, Part 3: Chapter 14-26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is an essential tool for maintaining liberty?
(a) Protection of the First Amendment.
(b) Freedom of the press.
(c) Protection of the press.
(d) Freedom of religion.

2. To an American writer, the individuals and events are related how?
(a) They are dependent on each other.
(b) They are independent of each other.
(c) They rely on each other.
(d) They are interrelated, although not dependent on each other.

3. De Tocqueville believes that the democratic writer has less to write about, but the writings are ________, when compared to aristocratic writings.
(a) Of greater subjects.
(b) Of greater importance.
(c) Of greater volume.
(d) Of greater need.

4. What does de Tocqueville observe that the principle of equality has created an extraordinary sense of in the American people?
(a) Logic.
(b) Stability.
(c) Perfectability.
(d) Rationality.

5. One drawback of equality of social conditions is an increase in what?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Association.
(c) Knowledge.
(d) Individualism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does de Tocqueville say American workers constantly struggle with their masters for?

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

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

4. In America, de Tocqueville observes that _____________ links the aristocrat and the workman.

5. Who gets the powers not enumerated to the federal government?

(see the answer key)

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