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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To a democratic writer, truth cannot emanate from a human simply because the human does what?
(a) Holds power.
(b) Exists.
(c) Is of the majority.
(d) Has logic.

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

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

4. Democratic regimes value prosperity over what?
(a) Contributions.
(b) Change.
(c) Brilliance.
(d) Intelligence.

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

6. Compared to an aristocratic government ruled by an elite administration, democracy allows for what?
(a) Weaker governance.
(b) More powerful governance.
(c) Concentration of wealth.
(d) Concentration of power.

7. What type of person does de Tocqueville say the American writer sees himself as?
(a) Thinker.
(b) Scholar.
(c) Entrepreneur.
(d) Enlightened.

8. According to de Tocqueville, in America men obey what?
(a) Justice and laws.
(b) God.
(c) Divine authority.
(d) Secular authority.

9. What feeds on ignorance, according to the Puritans' religious views?
(a) Democracy.
(b) Stupidity.
(c) The devil.
(d) Aristocracy.

10. What is an essential tool for maintaining liberty?
(a) Freedom of religion.
(b) Protection of the First Amendment.
(c) Protection of the press.
(d) Freedom of the press.

11. What kind of literature does America produce?
(a) Novels.
(b) Reports.
(c) Journalistic.
(d) Romantic.

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

13. What type of regime did de Tocqueville study in America?
(a) Theocracy.
(b) Populacity.
(c) Aristocracy.
(d) Democracy.

14. Historians in the United States believe that nations are driven by what?
(a) Singular events.
(b) Collective events.
(c) Particular individuals.
(d) Time.

15. According to de Tocqueville, governments typically perish because they lead their country into a state of anarchy or what?
(a) Tyranny.
(b) Illness.
(c) Poverty.
(d) War.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to de Tocqueville, freedom cannot be what?

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

3. In times of peace, what has more power than the President?

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

5. Power is divided between what two entities in the United States?

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