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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. De Tocqueville observes that in times of peace, the quality of a military in a democracy does what?
(a) Degrades.
(b) Subsides.
(c) Recedes.
(d) Increases.

2. In America, young men are given freedom when they reach what age?
(a) Adulthood.
(b) Teenagers.
(c) Nineteen.
(d) Adolescence.

3. What did the American people write?
(a) The laws governing relationships.
(b) The laws of interactions.
(c) The laws governing their attitudes.
(d) The laws of their country.

4. According to de Tocqueville, too much emphasis on equality leads to what?
(a) Servitude.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Laziness.
(d) Mediocrity.

5. The development of industry has led to an increase in what?
(a) Repetitive tasks.
(b) Division of labor.
(c) Working poor.
(d) Working mothers.

6. The army of a democratic country is equated, by deTocqueville, to what?
(a) A separate state.
(b) A separate nation.
(c) A separate people.
(d) A separate arm of the government.

7. The relationship of the American aristocrat and workman is likened to a traditional aristocrat and what, according to de Tocqueville?
(a) Servants.
(b) Knights.
(c) Peasants.
(d) Slaves.

8. The separation between the workmen and the owners has created a new aristocracy based on what?
(a) Money.
(b) Nobility.
(c) Family.
(d) Bloodlines.

9. The tendency of Americans to behave differently towards outsiders is sometimes known as what?
(a) Archeophobia.
(b) Isolationism.
(c) Alienation.
(d) Xenophobia.

10. De Tocqueville states that the aristocracy in America is different from traditional aristocracies because the members of the class do not share what?
(a) Family relationships.
(b) Political goals.
(c) Money.
(d) Interests.

11. In America, citizens have a right to what kind of associations?
(a) Restricted.
(b) Political.
(c) Free.
(d) Unlimited.

12. De Tocqueville believes that there is unlikely to be a ______________ in the United States.
(a) Great economic revolution.
(b) Great moral revolution.
(c) Great social revolution.
(d) Great political revolution.

13. What is one of the checks and balances on the executive branch to prevent it from becoming despotic?
(a) An independent moral system.
(b) An independent judiciary.
(c) An independent education system.
(d) An independent press.

14. Democratic countries do not want revolution or ______, in de Tocqueville's beliefs?
(a) Conquest.
(b) Peace.
(c) War.
(d) Colonization.

15. The desire for immediate gratification led the people of America to what?
(a) Slavery.
(b) Industry.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Agriculture.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is considered a member of the aristocratic class in America?

2. In America, what did people have before they had equality of conditions?

3. The threat of a despotic government is greater in democratic societies because the power of the government is what, according to de Tocqueville?

4. Decentralization of the governmental administration has multiplied what?

5. What general attitude does de Tocqueville purport that Americans have towards each other?

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