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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long did de Tocqueville stay in the united States?
(a) Nine months.
(b) One year.
(c) A year and a half.
(d) Six months.

2. What kind of regime did the people of France and England live in?
(a) Authoritarian.
(b) Aristocratic.
(c) Democratic.
(d) Theocratic.

3. What feeds on ignorance, according to the Puritans' religious views?
(a) Stupidity.
(b) Democracy.
(c) Aristocracy.
(d) The devil.

4. About what does de Tocqueville believe aristocrats are busy writing?
(a) Life.
(b) Humankind.
(c) Unique nations.
(d) Mundane matters.

5. According to de Tocqueville, in Europe men obey what?
(a) God.
(b) Laws.
(c) Men.
(d) Justice.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does de Tocqueville characterize political parties?

2. Materialism and _______ are part of the consequences of a perceived equality of conditions.

3. Before the American Revolution, what were the two great political parties?

4. What does de Tocqueville say religion participates in keeping the social effects of on a leash?

5. A democracy will not purposely legislate against the good of its what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does de Tocqueville analyze in his book?

2. Americans want to explain everything through human intelligence and leave the rest to be explained by what, according to de Tocqueville?

3. Why, according to de Tocqueville, does the American writer write?

4. Why does the minority recognize the decision and rights of the majority in America, according to de Tocqueville's observations?

5. According to the author, what is the reason free people obey laws?

6. What is one of the drawbacks to de Tocqueville's view of the American approach to literature and poetry?

7. According to de Tocqueville, what are the differences between the American and European press?

8. The communities of New England set the foundation of a democratic society based on what?

9. De Tocqueville believes that religion provides what to Americans?

10. What is the unusual political power, based on the Constitution, that the American judicial system holds?

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