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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Volume 2, Part 2: Chapter 10-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. One drawback of equality of social conditions is an increase in what?
(a) Individualism.
(b) Association.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Knowledge.

2. The right of political association originally came from where?
(a) Puritans.
(b) France.
(c) England.
(d) Colonists.

3. What type of person does de Tocqueville say the American writer sees himself as?
(a) Scholar.
(b) Thinker.
(c) Entrepreneur.
(d) Enlightened.

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

5. Who is considered a member of the aristocratic class in America?
(a) Masters of industrial wealth.
(b) Masters of agricultural wealth.
(c) Old families with bloodlines to the American Revolution.
(d) Elder statesmen and their families.

Short Answer Questions

1. In times of peace, what has more power than the President?

2. The balancing act that the three branches of government perform on each other is referred to as what?

3. What is an immediate danger to democracy?

4. Because of the generally accepted principle of equality among Americans, according to de Tocqueville they are less likely to accept what?

5. The separation between the workmen and the owners has created a new aristocracy based on what?

(see the answer key)

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