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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. Compared to aristocratic countries, there is a tendency to do what to workers' wages in democratic countries?
(a) Raise them.
(b) Tie them to experience.
(c) Tie them to skills.
(d) Lower them.

2. The very poor and very rich are in what group in America?
(a) The minority.
(b) The farmers.
(c) The industrious.
(d) The majority.

3. What requires years of hard and dedicated work before yielding a profit?
(a) Investment.
(b) Writing.
(c) Scholarly works.
(d) Agriculture.

4. When compared to women in a traditional aristocratic regime, de Tocqueville says American women are more _________.
(a) Ignorant.
(b) Independent.
(c) Dismissive.
(d) Subservient.

5. What acts as a catalyst for the opinions and desires of the people?
(a) Opinion.
(b) Elected officials.
(c) Political associations.
(d) Newspapers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the main difference between a democratic tyranny and a monarchical tyranny?

2. De Tocqueville believes that revolutions are generally the result of the people's desire to eliminate what?

3. Because of equality, Americans share similar education and what?

4. What is an immediate danger to democracy?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. According to de Tocqueville, what political instinct have the American people developed that will counter their natural tendency towards equality?

2. As men seeking equality become more alike, what is one possibility for a type of tyrannical regime in a democratic society, according to de Tocqueville?

3. How does de Tocqueville define comfort?

4. What is one reason that democracies do not value equality and liberty equally?

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

6. What is the only great inequality that de Tocqueville sees in American society?

7. What is at least one thing that led America to develop industry instead of agriculture?

8. In what situation would total equality of the people's condition be possible?

9. What is the major difference between the classic aristocrat and the new aristocrat in America according to de Tocqueville?

10. What is one of the problems of equality of conditions?

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