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

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

3. Limiting the right of association would be what to a democratic society?
(a) Beneficial.
(b) Desirable.
(c) Abusive.
(d) Detrimental.

4. When American writers exaggerate the importance of a subject, de Tocqueville says it gets lost in what?
(a) Space.
(b) The clouds.
(c) The world.
(d) Oblivion.

5. De Tocqueville believes that Americans have little means of discussing opinions outside the range of those entertained by whom?
(a) The majority.
(b) The ruling class.
(c) Those in political power.
(d) The vocal minority.

Short Answer Questions

1. The relationship of the American aristocrat and workman is likened to a traditional aristocrat and what, according to de Tocqueville?

2. Judges are accountable to what?

3. How does de Tocqueville characterize political parties?

4. What requires years of hard and dedicated work before yielding a profit?

5. In de Tocqueville's observations, the patriotism of Americans is more akin to cupidity than to what?

(see the answer key)

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