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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Volume 2, Part 1: Chapter 13-21.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. De Tocqueville observed that Americans like to explain everything as a result of human what?
(a) Bravery.
(b) Pride.
(c) Innovation.
(d) Intelligence.

3. Cupidity means what?
(a) A strong desire, normally for wealth.
(b) A strong desire, normally for material things.
(c) A strong desire, normally for participation.
(d) A strong desire, normally for achievement.

4. De Tocqueville believes that religion provides the people of America with a set of beliefs that does what?
(a) Goes without justification or justice.
(b) Goes without justification or explanation.
(c) Goes without logic or explanation.
(d) Goes without reason or explanation.

5. Instead of being driven by man, events--according to a democratic writer--are driven by what?
(a) Fate or sheer necessity.
(b) Providence or irresistible forces.
(c) Providence or sheer necessity.
(d) Fate or irresistable forces.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In a monarchy, what is as volatile as the perceived superiority of the state?

3. Democratic regimes value prosperity over what?

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

5. De Tocqueville believes that democracy provides an authority of its own by replacing the certitudes of the intellectual with what?

(see the answer key)

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