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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. According to de Tocqueville, equality can enable what?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Hope.
(d) Power.

6. De Tocqueville believes that religion provides the people of America with a set of beliefs that does what?
(a) Goes without justification or justice.
(b) Goes without reason or explanation.
(c) Goes without logic or explanation.
(d) Goes without justification or explanation.

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

8. Who gets the powers not enumerated to the federal government?
(a) The states.
(b) The townships.
(c) The people.
(d) The judiciary.

9. When can a judge refuse to enforce a law?
(a) When they do not agree with the law.
(b) When the law in unconstitutional.
(c) When the people they are representing do not like the law.
(d) When they do not like the law.

10. What kind of regime did the people of France and England live in?
(a) Democratic.
(b) Theocratic.
(c) Aristocratic.
(d) Authoritarian.

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

12. What is one of the best safeguards against potential tyranny of the majority in America?
(a) The balance of power.
(b) The press.
(c) The judicial system.
(d) The media.

13. Democracy promotes spending energy on what types of tasks?
(a) Artistic.
(b) Intellectual.
(c) Material.
(d) Religious.

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

15. What type of people are educated and serve to bring reason to debates through logic?
(a) Critics.
(b) Statesmen.
(c) Lawyers.
(d) Politicians.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to de Tocqueville, governments typically perish because they lead their country into a state of anarchy or what?

2. De Tocqueville observes that judges are not elected, but are what?

3. What kind of literature does America produce?

4. Judges are accountable to what?

5. To an American writer, the individuals and events are related how?

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