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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. According to de Tocqueville, freedom cannot be what?
(a) Felt.
(b) Measured.
(c) Explained.
(d) Understood.

2. Power is divided between what two entities in the United States?
(a) State and federal governments.
(b) State and the people.
(c) The ignorant and the intelligent.
(d) Citizens and the military.

3. In times of peace, what has more power than the President?
(a) Judiciary.
(b) Legislature.
(c) Executive branch.
(d) Senate.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. De Tocqueville characterizes the relationship between politics and religion as what?

2. In a monarchic regime, political positions and the bulk of the wealth are reserved for whom?

3. Religion and the constant drive for ___________ are the main barriers to the development of independent arts and science in the United States, according to de Tocqueville.

4. De Tocqueville believes that there must be complete freedom of what?

5. Democracy is a catalyst for what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the government establish in order to maintain the balance of power between the Confederation and the states when the rights of the states were questioned?

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

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

4. Where does the American writer find poetry, according to de Tocqueville's observations?

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

6. What does de Tocqueville analyze in his book?

7. Why, in America, would it be hard for a democratic government to exercise tyrannical authority?

8. Why does de Tocqueville believe that freedom of opinion is practically non-existent in the United States?

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

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

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