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

2. De Tocqueville believes that democracy provides an authority of its own by replacing the certitudes of the intellectual with what?
(a) The certitudes of the majority.
(b) The certitudes of the political elite.
(c) The certitudes of the center.
(d) The certitudes of the conservatives.

3. Democracy promotes spending energy on what types of tasks?
(a) Material.
(b) Religious.
(c) Artistic.
(d) Intellectual.

4. What does de Tocqueville say religion participates in keeping the social effects of on a leash?
(a) Egalitarianism.
(b) Democracy.
(c) Capitalism.
(d) Socialism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an essential tool for maintaining liberty?

2. The right of political association originally came from where?

3. Who gets the powers not enumerated to the federal government?

4. In de Tocqueville's observations, compared to European legislation, American legislation is what?

5. In a democracy, people take a special interest in the affairs of the state in order to do what?

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