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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 is an immediate danger to democracy?
(a) Perfect society.
(b) Freedom of association.
(c) Absolute freedom.
(d) Equality.

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

3. Power is divided between what two entities in the United States?
(a) State and federal governments.
(b) State and the people.
(c) Citizens and the military.
(d) The ignorant and the intelligent.

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

5. What kind of regime did the people of France and England live in?
(a) Aristocratic.
(b) Theocratic.
(c) Authoritarian.
(d) Democratic.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did de Tocqueville stay in the united States?

2. The right of political association originally came from where?

3. Decentralization of the governmental administration has multiplied what?

4. Cupidity means what?

5. According to de Tocqueville, in America men obey what?

(see the answer key)

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