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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 deals with the affairs of the people and is bound to be turbulent and uncertain?
(a) Politics.
(b) Community.
(c) Society.
(d) Religion.

2. In a monarchy, what is as volatile as the perceived superiority of the state?
(a) Loyalty.
(b) Patriotism.
(c) Partisanship.
(d) Commitment.

3. Who gets the powers not enumerated to the federal government?
(a) The judiciary.
(b) The people.
(c) The states.
(d) The townships.

4. In a monarchic regime, political positions and the bulk of the wealth are reserved for whom?
(a) The members of the monarchy.
(b) The members of the aristocratic minority.
(c) The members of the aristocratic majority.
(d) The members of the monarchy and their friends.

5. What kind of literature does America produce?
(a) Journalistic.
(b) Romantic.
(c) Novels.
(d) Reports.

Short Answer Questions

1. The democratic writer assumes that man is what?

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

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

4. What is one of the branches of government?

5. About what does de Tocqueville believe aristocrats are busy writing?

(see the answer key)

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