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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Volume 2, Part 3: Chapter 1-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To an American writer, the individuals and events are related how?
(a) They are interrelated, although not dependent on each other.
(b) They are independent of each other.
(c) They rely on each other.
(d) They are dependent on each other.

2. 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.
(a) Requirements.
(b) Rights.
(c) Ideals.
(d) Responsibilities.

3. What does de Tocqueville say American workers constantly struggle with their masters for?
(a) More freedom.
(b) Better job transferability.
(c) More skill training.
(d) Higher wages.

4. Historians in the United States believe that nations are driven by what?
(a) Time.
(b) Collective events.
(c) Particular individuals.
(d) Singular events.

5. In a monarchy, what is as volatile as the perceived superiority of the state?
(a) Patriotism.
(b) Commitment.
(c) Loyalty.
(d) Partisanship.

Short Answer Questions

1. In de Tocqueville's observations, the patriotism of Americans is more akin to cupidity than to what?

2. A democracy will not purposely legislate against the good of its what?

3. Aristocratic regimes in Europe put the wealth into the hands of whom?

4. In de Tocqueville's observations, aristocratic societies make countless _____________ available between man and God.

5. The democratic writer assumes that man is what?

(see the answer key)

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