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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. The small variations in manners between Americans and others are interpreted, by Americans, as an expression of what?
(a) Differences.
(b) Individuality.
(c) Moral superiority.
(d) Social superiority.

2. Civil associations are often born out of what?
(a) National political associations.
(b) Local political associations.
(c) State-level political associations.
(d) Multi-state political associations.

3. According to de Tocqueville, in contrast to the traditional aristocracy, the American aristocracy has no direct effect on the _______ of its class members.
(a) Social manners.
(b) Social standing.
(c) Moral standing.
(d) Social viewpoints.

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

5. The right of political association originally came from where?
(a) England.
(b) Puritans.
(c) France.
(d) Colonists.

Short Answer Questions

1. Political associations combat what?

2. The institutions of the United States tend to bring together what type of people?

3. Judges are accountable to what?

4. American people get richer through peaceful trading and manufacturing instead of what?

5. Religion and politics do what, in American life?

(see the answer key)

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