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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Volume 2, Part 3: Chapter 1-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Cupidity means what?
(a) A strong desire, normally for achievement.
(b) A strong desire, normally for participation.
(c) A strong desire, normally for wealth.
(d) A strong desire, normally for material things.

2. Who does de Tocqueville believe seeks exclusive comfort?
(a) The wealthy.
(b) Aristocrats.
(c) Americans.
(d) Political elite.

3. De Tocqueville believes that democracy provides an authority of its own by replacing the certitudes of the intellectual with what?
(a) The certitudes of the majority.
(b) The certitudes of the conservatives.
(c) The certitudes of the political elite.
(d) The certitudes of the center.

4. What reason does de Tocqueville supply for what Americans read, other than to stay informed?
(a) Profit.
(b) School.
(c) Entertainment.
(d) Professional development.

5. De Tocqueville believes that there must be complete freedom of what?
(a) Speech, religion, and press.
(b) Press and religion.
(c) Speech and press.
(d) Speech and religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Workmen, in America, can be replaced how?

2. Compared to an aristocratic government ruled by an elite administration, democracy allows for what?

3. Historians in the United States believe that nations are driven by what?

4. According to de Tocqueville, governments typically perish because they lead their country into a state of anarchy or what?

5. In America, all siblings are what?

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