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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to de Tocqueville, too much equality leads individuals to what?
(a) Lose their relative worth.
(b) Lose their relative importance.
(c) Lose their relative wealth.
(d) Lose their relative places in society.

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

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

4. Democracy tightens social ties as it loosens what?
(a) Familial bonds.
(b) Religious bonds.
(c) Moral bonds.
(d) Social bonds.

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

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

7. What does de Tocqueville define as a state of mental ease akin to physical and mental numbness?
(a) Mediocrity.
(b) Comfort.
(c) Ignorance.
(d) Bliss.

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

9. Political associations exist at the national level and are most effective at what level?
(a) The state level.
(b) The national level.
(c) The local level.
(d) The township level.

10. According to de Tocqueville, total equality of people's condition would only be possible in a society where freedom is what?
(a) Absolute.
(b) Ideal.
(c) Relative.
(d) Liberty.

11. According to de Tocqueville, in contrast to the traditional aristocracy, the American aristocracy has no direct effect on the _______ of its class members.
(a) Moral standing.
(b) Social viewpoints.
(c) Social manners.
(d) Social standing.

12. What is one of the freedoms Americans have written into laws that will protect against democracy being oppression?
(a) Freedom of economics.
(b) Freedom of liberty.
(c) Freedom of the press.
(d) Freedom of privilege.

13. According to de Tocqueville, when men seek more equality and comfort, what do they tend to become?
(a) More tyrannical.
(b) More despotic.
(c) More different.
(d) More alike.

14. Isolation increases the dangers of what?
(a) Absolute power.
(b) Mediocrity.
(c) Tyranny.
(d) A dangerous leader.

15. De Tocqueville believes that it depends on the individual whether equality leads them to knowledge or _______________.
(a) Ignorance.
(b) Solitude.
(c) Boredom.
(d) Barbarism.

Short Answer Questions

1. In de Tocqueville's observations, the economic class of an individual may confer on him several privileges, but there are no _______________ attached to those privileges.

2. What type of regime does de Tocqueville believe is more oppressive than a dictatorship?

3. Workmen, in America, can be replaced how?

4. De Tocqueville believes wars will become rarer as _______ expands.

5. Democratic countries do not want revolution or ______, in de Tocqueville's beliefs?

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