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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Volume 2, Part 1: Chapter 1-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Religion and politics do what, in American life?
(a) Share similar characteristics.
(b) Occupy similar space.
(c) Occupy their own space.
(d) Influence each other.

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

3. What type of people are educated and serve to bring reason to debates through logic?
(a) Politicians.
(b) Lawyers.
(c) Critics.
(d) Statesmen.

4. Because the settlers imported most of their technical knowledge, when they got to America they only had to do what?
(a) Put it into practice.
(b) Adapt it to American ideas and situations.
(c) Remember it.
(d) Create the theory to go behind it.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. De Tocqueville characterizes the relationship between politics and religion as what?

2. What kind of impact does the American press have on its people?

3. After what event was the sovereignty of the people codified in law?

4. According to de Tocqueville, the population of America is typically oblivious to the development of what?

5. Power is divided between what two entities in the United States?

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