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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. In de Tocqueville's observations, the patriotism of Americans is more akin to cupidity than to what?
(a) A sense of requirement.
(b) A sense of duty or pride.
(c) A sense of obligation.
(d) A sense of country.

2. De Tocqueville compares equality to what weapon?
(a) A dagger.
(b) A spear.
(c) A bow and arrow.
(d) A double-edged sword.

3. Democratic regimes will value general well-being over what?
(a) Wealth of the majority.
(b) Extraordinary wealth of the few.
(c) Wealth of the minority.
(d) Extraordinary wealth of the ruling class.

4. What does de Tocqueville observe that the principle of equality has created an extraordinary sense of in the American people?
(a) Rationality.
(b) Stability.
(c) Logic.
(d) Perfectability.

5. In de Tocqueville's observations, aristocratic societies make countless _____________ available between man and God.
(a) Forces.
(b) Sources.
(c) Methods of communication.
(d) Intermediaries.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what does de Tocqueville believe aristocrats are busy writing?

2. In what does de Tocqueville say American writers find poetry?

3. Of what does de Tocqueville state that the United States does not produce a valuable body?

4. De Tocqueville believes that the democratic writer has less to write about, but the writings are ________, when compared to aristocratic writings.

5. What deals with the affairs of the people and is bound to be turbulent and uncertain?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does equality among the people trigger, in addition to innovation, according to de Tocqueville?

2. Although religion remains out of the realm of politics according to de Tocqueville's observations, what political effect does religion have?

3. De Tocqueville believes that political parties are what to democratic societies?

4. What laws prevailed as the basis of the developing democratic society in the United States?

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

6. According to de Tocqueville, why does the United States only produce journalistic literature?

7. After the American Revolutionary war, the government defined, very precisely, the powers that belonged to whom?

8. On what single principle does democracy, as a political system, rely?

9. What are some of the suggestions that equality makes to the beliefs of the American people?

10. What, according to the author, are some of the downsides of democracy?

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