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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. How is scientific research being driven in America at the time de Tocqueville is observing American democracy?
(a) Instant gratification is driving material research.
(b) Instant profits are driving scientific research.
(c) Geniuses are driving scientific research.
(d) Industrial purposes are driving scientific research.

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

3. When can a judge refuse to enforce a law?
(a) When they do not like the law.
(b) When the people they are representing do not like the law.
(c) When they do not agree with the law.
(d) When the law in unconstitutional.

4. In America, all siblings are what?
(a) Treated differently depending on birth order.
(b) Treated differently.
(c) Given the same rank.
(d) Equal.

5. In America, what did people have before they had equality of conditions?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Right of association.
(c) Liberty.
(d) Freedom of association.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of the checks and balances on the executive branch to prevent it from becoming despotic?

2. When compared to women in a traditional aristocratic regime, de Tocqueville says American women are more _________.

3. How long did de Tocqueville stay in the united States?

4. De Tocqueville believes wars will become rarer as _______ expands.

5. The very poor and very rich are in what group in America?

(see the answer key)

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