View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Democracy is a catalyst for what?
(a) Change.
(b) Economic growth.
(c) Industry.
(d) Material wealth.

2. Politically, the New World has never experienced what?
(a) Social change.
(b) Republics.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Anarchy.

3. De Tocqueville characterizes the relationship between politics and religion as what?
(a) Similar ideas, and so they must be kept separate.
(b) Opposites who need each other.
(c) Opposites who do not need each other.
(d) Similar ideas that can be incorporated together.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. De Tocqueville believes that there must be complete freedom of what?

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

3. Before the American Revolution, what were the two great political parties?

4. How does de Tocqueville characterize political parties?

5. Democratic regimes will value general well-being over what?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 233 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample