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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. De Tocqueville characterizes the relationship between politics and religion as what?
(a) Opposites who do not need each other.
(b) Similar ideas, and so they must be kept separate.
(c) Similar ideas that can be incorporated together.
(d) Opposites who need each other.

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

3. When can a judge refuse to enforce a law?
(a) When the people they are representing do not like the law.
(b) When they do not agree with the law.
(c) When they do not like the law.
(d) When the law in unconstitutional.

4. How does de Tocqueville characterize political parties?
(a) As necessary but evil.
(b) As unnecessary and good.
(c) As unnecessary and evil.
(d) As necessary and good.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Cupidity means what?

2. According to de Tocqueville, equality can enable what?

3. Democratic regimes value prosperity over what?

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

5. Where were the first colonies established?

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