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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Volume 2, Part 4: Chapter 1-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What general attitude does de Tocqueville purport that Americans have towards each other?
(a) Privileged.
(b) Acrimonious.
(c) Distant.
(d) Friendly.

2. Because of equality, Americans share similar education and what?
(a) Initial abilities.
(b) Initial strength.
(c) Initial wealth.
(d) Initial conditions.

3. What year was de Tocqueville's voyage to the United States?
(a) 1820.
(b) 1850.
(c) 1830.
(d) 1840.

4. When people are concerned about indulging their need for immediate and orderly comfort, they exercise what?
(a) Absolute freedom.
(b) Moral self-restraint.
(c) Domination.
(d) Excessive pleasure.

5. Democracy promotes spending energy on what types of tasks?
(a) Material.
(b) Intellectual.
(c) Artistic.
(d) Religious.

Short Answer Questions

1. Under aristocratic regimes, privileges are set by what?

2. According to de Tocqueville, what drives the actions of every American man?

3. What does de Tocqueville believe plays an important role in the process of protecting the freedom of men by increasing their interdependence?

4. In a monarchic regime, political positions and the bulk of the wealth are reserved for whom?

5. What alone, according to de Tocqueville, is not a strong enough criterion to elevate an individual over the others?

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