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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. Judges are accountable to what?
(a) The laws they make.
(b) The people who elected them.
(c) The laws they are representing.
(d) The people who appointed them.

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

3. De Tocqueville writes that Americans tend to reject all external human authority and rely, instead, on what?
(a) Philosophical evidence.
(b) Public opinion.
(c) Minority opinion.
(d) Historical evidence.

4. The balancing act that the three branches of government perform on each other is referred to as what?
(a) Opposing powers.
(b) Federalism.
(c) Checks and balances.
(d) Freedom from tyranny.

5. In de Tocqueville's observations, compared to European legislation, American legislation is what?
(a) Unclear.
(b) Inefficient.
(c) Complicated.
(d) Ineffective.

Short Answer Questions

1. De Tocqueville believes that the nations of his time cannot prevent the conditions of men from becoming _________________.

2. According to de Tocqueville, the population of America is typically oblivious to the development of what?

3. De Tocqueville believes that the democratic writer has less to write about, but the writings are ________, when compared to aristocratic writings.

4. Historians in the United States believe that nations are driven by what?

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

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