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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. What does de Tocqueville define as a state of mental ease akin to physical and mental numbness?
(a) Comfort.
(b) Ignorance.
(c) Bliss.
(d) Mediocrity.

2. What does de Tocqueville say religion participates in keeping the social effects of on a leash?
(a) Democracy.
(b) Socialism.
(c) Egalitarianism.
(d) Capitalism.

3. Repetitive tasks give workers an inability to change what?
(a) The economic situations of their families.
(b) Their skills.
(c) Their jobs.
(d) The conditions in which they work.

4. Political associations combat what?
(a) Tyranny.
(b) The majority.
(c) Interest groups.
(d) Individualism.

5. In America, young men are given freedom when they reach what age?
(a) Teenagers.
(b) Adolescence.
(c) Adulthood.
(d) Nineteen.

Short Answer Questions

1. De Tocqueville believes that democracy provides an authority of its own by replacing the certitudes of the intellectual with what?

2. In de Tocqueville's observations, what is something the federal government is allowed to do?

3. Democracy influences the citizens' political views and what other types of views?

4. Who gets the powers not enumerated to the federal government?

5. Democratic regimes will value general well-being over what?

(see the answer key)

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