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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In de Tocqueville's observations, what is something the federal government is allowed to do?
(a) Manage health care.
(b) Manage education.
(c) Tax.
(d) Create infrastructure.

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

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

4. Power is divided between what two entities in the United States?
(a) The ignorant and the intelligent.
(b) State and the people.
(c) Citizens and the military.
(d) State and federal governments.

5. De Tocqueville believes that there must be complete freedom of what?
(a) Speech and press.
(b) Speech, religion, and press.
(c) Press and religion.
(d) Speech and religion.

6. The New World is considered to be what, geographically, to the rest of the world?
(a) To the East.
(b) Nearby.
(c) Isolated.
(d) To the West.

7. When American writers exaggerate the importance of a subject, de Tocqueville says it gets lost in what?
(a) The world.
(b) Space.
(c) Oblivion.
(d) The clouds.

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

9. The people in a democracy instinctively acknowledge that the interest of the many is more valuable than that of whom?
(a) The monarchy.
(b) A privileged few.
(c) The wealthy.
(d) A small but active minority.

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

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

12. Of what does de Tocqueville state that the United States does not produce a valuable body?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Science.
(c) Knowledge.
(d) Literature.

13. How long did de Tocqueville stay in the united States?
(a) Six months.
(b) A year and a half.
(c) One year.
(d) Nine months.

14. Democratic regimes value what over heroism?
(a) Common sense.
(b) Patriotism.
(c) Acts of engagement.
(d) Habits of peace.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what does de Tocqueville say American writers find poetry?

3. De Tocqueville characterizes the relationship between politics and religion as what?

4. When can a judge refuse to enforce a law?

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

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