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

2. The institutions of the United States tend to bring together what type of people?
(a) The scholarly people.
(b) The political elite.
(c) People of aristocratic rank.
(d) People of all ranks.

3. What general attitude does de Tocqueville purport that Americans have towards each other?
(a) Friendly.
(b) Acrimonious.
(c) Distant.
(d) Privileged.

4. De Tocqueville writes that Americans tend to reject all external human authority and rely, instead, on what?
(a) Minority opinion.
(b) Public opinion.
(c) Historical evidence.
(d) Philosophical evidence.

5. De Tocqueville believes that educated Americans read what type of literature?
(a) Relevant.
(b) European.
(c) Journalistic.
(d) Scholarly.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does de Tocqueville characterize political parties?

2. The New World is considered to be what, geographically, to the rest of the world?

3. What class, in America, will eventually gain the upper hand in their struggles?

4. De Tocqueville believes that there is unlikely to be a ______________ in the United States.

5. The American historian holds individuals accountable for what?

(see the answer key)

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