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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In a democracy, people take a special interest in the affairs of the state in order to do what?
(a) Participate in power and its outcomes.
(b) Participate in the political process.
(c) Obtain a political position.
(d) Be one of the people in power.

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

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

4. What reason does de Tocqueville supply for what Americans read, other than to stay informed?
(a) Entertainment.
(b) School.
(c) Profit.
(d) Professional development.

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

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

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

8. In de Tocqueville's observations, aristocratic societies make countless _____________ available between man and God.
(a) Forces.
(b) Methods of communication.
(c) Sources.
(d) Intermediaries.

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

10. To an American writer, the individuals and events are related how?
(a) They rely on each other.
(b) They are interrelated, although not dependent on each other.
(c) They are dependent on each other.
(d) They are independent of each other.

11. What does de Tocqueville say religion participates in keeping the social effects of on a leash?
(a) Democracy.
(b) Capitalism.
(c) Socialism.
(d) Egalitarianism.

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

13. A democracy will not purposely legislate against the good of its what?
(a) Voters.
(b) Majority.
(c) Minority.
(d) People.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Judges are accountable to what?

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

3. To a democratic writer, truth cannot emanate from a human simply because the human does what?

4. De Tocqueville observed that Americans like to explain everything as a result of human what?

5. Compared to an aristocratic government ruled by an elite administration, democracy allows for what?

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