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

2. Compared to an aristocratic government ruled by an elite administration, democracy allows for what?
(a) Concentration of wealth.
(b) Concentration of power.
(c) Weaker governance.
(d) More powerful governance.

3. How long did de Tocqueville stay in the united States?
(a) One year.
(b) Six months.
(c) Nine months.
(d) A year and a half.

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

5. Equality among people triggers innovation and intellectual what, in de Tocqueville's observations?
(a) Passivity.
(b) Mediocrity.
(c) Rigidity.
(d) Dullness.

Short Answer Questions

1. One drawback of equality of social conditions is an increase in what?

2. De Tocqueville observes that judges are not elected, but are what?

3. The development of industry has led to an increase in what?

4. According to De Tocqueville, all Americans seek it, but do not necessarily seek it exclusively. What is it?

5. Repetitive tasks give workers an inability to change what?

(see the answer key)

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