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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 kind of regime did the people of France and England live in?
(a) Theocratic.
(b) Aristocratic.
(c) Authoritarian.
(d) Democratic.

2. What is one of the two important tools of American democracy?
(a) Printed media.
(b) Political media.
(c) Spoken words.
(d) Televised media.

3. By excluding minorities from power, what does de Tocqueville believe will happen?
(a) The foundation of democracy will be endangered.
(b) The minority will revolt against the majority.
(c) The foundations of the Constitution will be violated.
(d) A new type of democratic rule will emerge.

4. Religion and the constant drive for ___________ are the main barriers to the development of independent arts and science in the United States, according to de Tocqueville.
(a) Cupidity.
(b) Economic progress.
(c) Material wealth.
(d) Comfort

5. Lawyers are connected to the aristocracy by their personal interest and what?
(a) Reasoning.
(b) Education.
(c) Culture.
(d) Friends.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does de Tocqueville say religion participates in keeping the social effects of on a leash?

2. The New World is considered to be what, geographically, to the rest of the world?

3. De Tocqueville observed that Americans like to explain everything as a result of human what?

4. Materialism and _______ are part of the consequences of a perceived equality of conditions.

5. What year was de Tocqueville's voyage to the United States?

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