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

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

3. American people get richer through peaceful trading and manufacturing instead of what?
(a) Theft.
(b) Pirating.
(c) Conquest.
(d) War.

4. Who does de Tocqueville believe seeks exclusive comfort?
(a) The wealthy.
(b) Americans.
(c) Political elite.
(d) Aristocrats.

5. De Tocqueville observes that in times of peace, the quality of a military in a democracy does what?
(a) Degrades.
(b) Subsides.
(c) Recedes.
(d) Increases.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to de Tocqueville, too much equality leads individuals to what?

3. What does de Tocqueville say American workers constantly struggle with their masters for?

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

5. De Tocqueville believes wars will become rarer as _______ expands.

Short Essay Questions

1. What normally causes a great social revolution?

2. According to de Tocqueville, what do citizens of the United States think would replace democracy if democracy failed in America?

3. What is one of the civil effects of the American society?

4. How does de Tocqueville define comfort?

5. In de Tocqueville's beliefs, how does too much emphasis on equality lead to tyrannical power?

6. Why are democratic societies less likely to wage war?

7. What two concepts, though linked, should not be confounded?

8. According to de Tocqueville, within their own country, how do Americans tend to behave toward each other?

9. How do the citizens of America see their equality when it comes to work collectively, according to de Tocqueville's observations?

10. What does the lack of rigidity in a family relationship in a democratic society allow the family to do, according to de Tocqueville?

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