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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. The vast majority of the American populace is too busy with _________________ to bother with a revolution.
(a) Comforts.
(b) Daily occupations.
(c) Striving for more comforts.
(d) Daily habits.

2. According to de Tocqueville, too much emphasis on equality leads to what?
(a) Slavery.
(b) Mediocrity.
(c) Laziness.
(d) Servitude.

3. Democracy counters individualism by insuring that common good is understood as what?
(a) Profiting everyone who behaves as if he or she is free.
(b) Profiting everyone who participates in the process.
(c) Profiting everyone in the community.
(d) Profiting everyone who depends on each other.

4. What does de Tocqeville say is linked to--but not the same as--liberty?
(a) Democracy.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Equality.
(d) Idealism.

5. What arm of the government, even in a democracy, tends to seek out war in de Tocqueville's observations?
(a) Executive branch.
(b) Political elite.
(c) Legislative branch.
(d) Military.

Short Answer Questions

1. De Tocqueville believes that people must exercise their political freedom by what?

2. In America, citizens have a right to what kind of associations?

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

4. In de Tocqueville's observations, the economic class of an individual may confer on him several privileges, but there are no _______________ attached to those privileges.

5. According to de Tocqueville, in contrast to the traditional aristocracy, the American aristocracy has no direct effect on the _______ of its class members.

Short Essay Questions

1. in de Tocqueville's observations, how are the masters and workmen connected in America?

2. According to de Tocqueville, in a democratic society, what seems like endless variations of the same and monotonous reality?

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

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

5. How does de Tocqueville define comfort?

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

7. What normally causes a great social revolution?

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

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

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

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