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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. De Tocqueville believes that there must be complete freedom of what?
(a) Speech and press.
(b) Speech, religion, and press.
(c) Speech and religion.
(d) Press and religion.

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

3. Cupidity means what?
(a) A strong desire, normally for wealth.
(b) A strong desire, normally for material things.
(c) A strong desire, normally for achievement.
(d) A strong desire, normally for participation.

4. When were the first colonies established?
(a) Early 1500s.
(b) Early 1700s.
(c) Early 1600s.
(d) Early 1900s.

5. In a monarchic regime, political positions and the bulk of the wealth are reserved for whom?
(a) The members of the monarchy and their friends.
(b) The members of the aristocratic majority.
(c) The members of the monarchy.
(d) The members of the aristocratic minority.

Short Answer Questions

1. De Tocqueville observed that Americans like to explain everything as a result of human what?

2. What is one of the two important tools of American democracy?

3. De Tocqueville writes that Americans tend to reject all external human authority and rely, instead, on what?

4. Democracy is a catalyst for what?

5. Freedom of the press is described as what type of weapon?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. According to de Tocqueville, although the democratic writer might have less to write about, what is the level of importance of what he writes about?

8. What does de Tocqueville analyze in his book?

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

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

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