2. 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) Put it into practice.
(c) Adapt it to American ideas and situations.
(d) Remember it.

3. What does de Tocqueville observe that the principle of equality has created an extraordinary sense of in the American people?
(a) Perfectability.
(b) Stability.
(c) Rationality.
(d) Logic.

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

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

6. What year was de Tocqueville's voyage to the United States?
(a) 1850.
(b) 1820.
(c) 1840.
(d) 1830.

7. How is scientific research being driven in America at the time de Tocqueville is observing American democracy?
(a) Industrial purposes are driving scientific research.
(b) Instant gratification is driving material research.
(c) Geniuses are driving scientific research.
(d) Instant profits are driving scientific research.

8. De Tocqueville believes that educated Americans read what type of literature?
(a) Relevant.
(b) European.
(c) Journalistic.
(d) Scholarly.

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

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

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

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

13. Instead of being driven by man, events--according to a democratic writer--are driven by what?
(a) Providence or irresistible forces.
(b) Fate or irresistable forces.
(c) Fate or sheer necessity.
(d) Providence or sheer necessity.

14. After what event was the sovereignty of the people codified in law?
(a) Boston Tea Party.
(b) Declaration of Independence.
(c) American Revolution.
(d) Civil War.

15. In a monarchic regime, political positions and the bulk of the wealth are reserved for whom?
(a) The members of the monarchy.
(b) The members of the aristocratic minority.
(c) The members of the monarchy and their friends.
(d) The members of the aristocratic majority.