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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. In times of peace, what has more power than the President?
(a) Judiciary.
(b) Executive branch.
(c) Legislature.
(d) Senate.

2. Who gets the powers not enumerated to the federal government?
(a) The townships.
(b) The people.
(c) The states.
(d) The judiciary.

3. Democracies tend to value what over liberty?
(a) Rights.
(b) Political association.
(c) Equality.
(d) Freedom.

4. Limiting the right of association would be what to a democratic society?
(a) Beneficial.
(b) Detrimental.
(c) Desirable.
(d) Abusive.

5. De Tocqueville characterizes the relationship between politics and religion as what?
(a) Similar ideas, and so they must be kept separate.
(b) Opposites who do not need each other.
(c) Similar ideas that can be incorporated together.
(d) Opposites who need each other.

Short Answer Questions

1. In America, de Tocqueville observes that _____________ links the aristocrat and the workman.

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

3. De Tocqueville states that the aristocracy in America is different from traditional aristocracies because the members of the class do not share what?

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

5. The relationship of the American aristocrat and workman is likened to a traditional aristocrat and what, according to de Tocqueville?

(see the answer key)

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