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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. The right of political association originally came from where?
(a) Colonists.
(b) France.
(c) Puritans.
(d) England.

2. The tendency of Americans to behave differently towards outsiders is sometimes known as what?
(a) Xenophobia.
(b) Isolationism.
(c) Alienation.
(d) Archeophobia.

3. According to De Tocqueville, all Americans seek it, but do not necessarily seek it exclusively. What is it?
(a) Wealth.
(b) Comfort.
(c) Association.
(d) Material well-being.

4. De Tocqueville believes that educated Americans read what type of literature?
(a) Scholarly.
(b) Journalistic.
(c) Relevant.
(d) European.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Limiting the right of association would be what to a democratic society?

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

3. The separation between the workmen and the owners has created a new aristocracy based on what?

4. Politically, the New World has never experienced what?

5. In a traditional aristocracy, de Tocqueville believes that the aristocrat was linked to their underlings by what?

(see the answer key)

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