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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 kind of impact does the American press have on its people?
(a) Medium.
(b) Huge.
(c) Large.
(d) Small.

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

3. Despite the huge lands, what remained a minor enterprise when de Tocqueville was observing America?
(a) Agriculture.
(b) Animal husbandry.
(c) Shipping.
(d) Rail.

4. According to de Tocqueville, governments typically perish because they lead their country into a state of anarchy or what?
(a) War.
(b) Poverty.
(c) Tyranny.
(d) Illness.

5. In America, what type of rank cannot be distinguished immediately?
(a) Military rank.
(b) Economic rank.
(c) Societal rank.
(d) Political rank.

Short Answer Questions

1. De Tocqueville writes that Americans tend to reject all external human authority and rely, instead, on what?

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

3. The tendency of Americans to behave differently towards outsiders is sometimes known as what?

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

5. Judges are accountable to what?

(see the answer key)

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