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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. Democratic regimes value what over heroism?
(a) Habits of peace.
(b) Patriotism.
(c) Acts of engagement.
(d) Common sense.

2. What is one of the best safeguards against potential tyranny of the majority in America?
(a) The press.
(b) The balance of power.
(c) The judicial system.
(d) The media.

3. What year was de Tocqueville's voyage to the United States?
(a) 1830.
(b) 1840.
(c) 1820.
(d) 1850.

4. The separation between the workmen and the owners has created a new aristocracy based on what?
(a) Nobility.
(b) Bloodlines.
(c) Family.
(d) Money.

5. Aristocratic regimes in Europe put the wealth into the hands of whom?
(a) The monarch.
(b) The few.
(c) The many.
(d) The ennobled.

Short Answer Questions

1. In America, citizens have a right to what kind of associations?

2. American settlers imported most of their technical language from where?

3. What produces goods and profits rapidly?

4. How is scientific research being driven in America at the time de Tocqueville is observing American democracy?

5. The democratic writer assumes that man is what?

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