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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What acts as a catalyst for the opinions and desires of the people?
(a) Political associations.
(b) Newspapers.
(c) Elected officials.
(d) Opinion.

2. In what country is every aspect of society in constant movement?
(a) England.
(b) America.
(c) France.
(d) Europe.

3. De Tocqueville observes that, while traveling outside their own country, Americans tend to travel with signs associated with _______________?
(a) Higher ranked industrial activities.
(b) Higher ranked scholarly pursuits.
(c) Higher ranked political offices.
(d) Higher ranked aristocrats.

4. What alone, according to de Tocqueville, is not a strong enough criterion to elevate an individual over the others?
(a) Wealth.
(b) Strength.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Ability.

5. Democracy influences the citizens' political views and what other types of views?
(a) Social.
(b) Moral.
(c) Industrial.
(d) Religious.

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

7. According to de Tocqueville, what drives the actions of every American man?
(a) Money.
(b) Privilege.
(c) Women.
(d) Rights.

8. Repetitive tasks give workers an inability to change what?
(a) Their skills.
(b) The economic situations of their families.
(c) The conditions in which they work.
(d) Their jobs.

9. When people are concerned about indulging their need for immediate and orderly comfort, they exercise what?
(a) Domination.
(b) Moral self-restraint.
(c) Excessive pleasure.
(d) Absolute freedom.

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

11. In de Tocqueville's beliefs, what is the surest and fastest way to destroy liberty?
(a) A ruling despot.
(b) Increasing the size of the military.
(c) Absolute tyranny.
(d) War.

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

13. What produces goods and profits rapidly?
(a) Marketing.
(b) Agriculture.
(c) Investment.
(d) Industry.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Democracy tightens social ties as it loosens what?

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

3. Despite the huge lands, what remained a minor enterprise when de Tocqueville was observing America?

4. De Tocqueville believes that the nations of his time cannot prevent the conditions of men from becoming _________________.

5. Limiting the right of association would be what to a democratic society?

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