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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Because the settlers imported most of their technical knowledge, when they got to America they only had to do what?
(a) Create the theory to go behind it.
(b) Adapt it to American ideas and situations.
(c) Put it into practice.
(d) Remember it.

2. American settlers imported most of their technical language from where?
(a) Europe.
(b) Canada.
(c) France.
(d) Asia.

3. When were the first colonies established?
(a) Early 1500s.
(b) Early 1700s.
(c) Early 1900s.
(d) Early 1600s.

4. The democratic writer assumes that man is what?
(a) Thinking.
(b) Powerful.
(c) Logical.
(d) Powerless.

5. What kind of impact does the American press have on its people?
(a) Small.
(b) Medium.
(c) Huge.
(d) Large.

6. De Tocqueville observed that Americans like to explain everything as a result of human what?
(a) Bravery.
(b) Innovation.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Pride.

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

8. What is one of the branches of government?
(a) Legislative.
(b) House of Representatives.
(c) Senate.
(d) President.

9. In de Tocqueville's analysis, sovereignty flows in what direction?
(a) From the people to the military.
(b) From the federal government to the state.
(c) From the state to the people.
(d) From the people to the state.

10. On what type of sovereignty does democracy rely?
(a) Absolute.
(b) Majority.
(c) Minority.
(d) Partial.

11. Cupidity means what?
(a) A strong desire, normally for participation.
(b) A strong desire, normally for material things.
(c) A strong desire, normally for wealth.
(d) A strong desire, normally for achievement.

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

13. Where were the first colonies established?
(a) New Haven.
(b) New England.
(c) Delaware.
(d) Virginia.

14. In de Tocqueville's observations, the patriotism of Americans is more akin to cupidity than to what?
(a) A sense of requirement.
(b) A sense of country.
(c) A sense of duty or pride.
(d) A sense of obligation.

15. American literature is made up of the two extremes of what, according to de Tocqueville?
(a) Passion.
(b) Imagination.
(c) Reality.
(d) The world.

Short Answer Questions

1. De Tocqueville believes that there must be complete freedom of what?

2. What is an essential tool for maintaining liberty?

3. In a democracy, people take a special interest in the affairs of the state in order to do what?

4. De Tocqueville believes that democracy provides an authority of its own by replacing the certitudes of the intellectual with what?

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

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