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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. Of what does de Tocqueville state that the United States does not produce a valuable body?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Literature.
(c) Knowledge.
(d) Science.

2. Democracy is a catalyst for what?
(a) Change.
(b) Industry.
(c) Economic growth.
(d) Material wealth.

3. Democracy counters individualism by insuring that common good is understood as what?
(a) Profiting everyone who depends on each other.
(b) Profiting everyone who behaves as if he or she is free.
(c) Profiting everyone in the community.
(d) Profiting everyone who participates in the process.

4. According to de Tocqueville, the population of America is typically oblivious to the development of what?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) History.
(c) Religion.
(d) Philosophy.

5. According to de Tocqueville, in Europe men obey what?
(a) Laws.
(b) Justice.
(c) God.
(d) Men.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The vast majority of the American populace is too busy with _________________ to bother with a revolution.

3. De Tocqueville believes that there is unlikely to be a ______________ in the United States.

4. American people get richer through peaceful trading and manufacturing instead of what?

5. In America, what type of rank cannot be distinguished immediately?

(see the answer key)

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