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

2. What requires years of hard and dedicated work before yielding a profit?
(a) Investment.
(b) Agriculture.
(c) Scholarly works.
(d) Writing.

3. Lawyers are connected to the aristocracy by their personal interest and what?
(a) Culture.
(b) Education.
(c) Friends.
(d) Reasoning.

4. What does de Tocqueville say religion participates in keeping the social effects of on a leash?
(a) Capitalism.
(b) Democracy.
(c) Socialism.
(d) Egalitarianism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does de Tocqueville observe that the principle of equality has created an extraordinary sense of in the American people?

2. What produces goods and profits rapidly?

3. When were the first colonies established?

4. Materialism and _______ are part of the consequences of a perceived equality of conditions.

5. According to de Tocqueville, in Europe men obey what?

(see the answer key)

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