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

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

3. In a monarchic regime, political positions and the bulk of the wealth are reserved for whom?
(a) The members of the aristocratic majority.
(b) The members of the monarchy and their friends.
(c) The members of the aristocratic minority.
(d) The members of the monarchy.

4. What year was de Tocqueville's voyage to the United States?
(a) 1830.
(b) 1850.
(c) 1840.
(d) 1820.

5. Before the American Revolution, what were the two great political parties?
(a) The Federalist and the Republican parties.
(b) The Federalist and the State parties.
(c) The Federalist and the Anti-Federalist parties.
(d) The Federalist and the Democratic parties.

Short Answer Questions

1. De Tocqueville compares equality to what weapon?

2. The people in a democracy instinctively acknowledge that the interest of the many is more valuable than that of whom?

3. Freedom of the press is described as what type of weapon?

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

5. On what type of sovereignty does democracy rely?

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