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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Political associations combat what?
(a) The majority.
(b) Interest groups.
(c) Tyranny.
(d) Individualism.

2. What is the main difference between a democratic tyranny and a monarchical tyranny?
(a) A democratic tyranny is harder to diagnose.
(b) A democratic tyranny is more difficult to counter.
(c) A democratic tyranny is a tyranny of one.
(d) A democratic tyranny is a tyranny of the majority.

3. Who is considered a member of the aristocratic class in America?
(a) Elder statesmen and their families.
(b) Masters of agricultural wealth.
(c) Masters of industrial wealth.
(d) Old families with bloodlines to the American Revolution.

4. In America, all siblings are what?
(a) Treated differently depending on birth order.
(b) Treated differently.
(c) Equal.
(d) Given the same rank.

5. American people get richer through peaceful trading and manufacturing instead of what?
(a) Theft.
(b) Conquest.
(c) Pirating.
(d) War.

6. In America, de Tocqueville observes that _____________ links the aristocrat and the workman.
(a) Duty.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Tradition.
(d) Pride.

7. Limiting the right of association would be what to a democratic society?
(a) Detrimental.
(b) Beneficial.
(c) Desirable.
(d) Abusive.

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

9. De Tocqueville believes that revolutions are generally the result of the people's desire to eliminate what?
(a) Inequalities.
(b) Restraints on liberty.
(c) Restraints on freedom.
(d) Excesses of the governing class.

10. The tendency of people to implement equality first in the hope that freedom will follow is a what?
(a) Political ideology.
(b) Political ideal.
(c) Political truism.
(d) Political reflex.

11. Workmen, in America, can be replaced how?
(a) In extreme circumstances.
(b) With difficulty.
(c) At will.
(d) Not at all.

12. Associations participate in doing what for the public?
(a) Providing an outlet for issues.
(b) Providing education on issues.
(c) Providing organization on issues.
(d) Providing advice on issues.

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

14. Democracies tend to value what over liberty?
(a) Equality.
(b) Rights.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Political association.

15. Governmental power in America is highly ______________.
(a) Decentralized.
(b) Balanced.
(c) Centralized.
(d) Equal.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Political associations exist at the national level and are most effective at what level?

3. "A priori" means what?

4. The relationship of the American aristocrat and workman is likened to a traditional aristocrat and what, according to de Tocqueville?

5. What produces goods and profits rapidly?

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