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

2. The democratic writer assumes that man is what?
(a) Powerless.
(b) Thinking.
(c) Powerful.
(d) Logical.

3. A democracy will not purposely legislate against the good of its what?
(a) Voters.
(b) Majority.
(c) People.
(d) Minority.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to de Tocqueville, governments typically perish because they lead their country into a state of anarchy or what?

3. Democratic regimes value what over heroism?

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.

5. Compared to the European system, de Tocqueville says the America court system is what?

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