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

2. 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.

3. To a democratic writer, truth cannot emanate from a human simply because the human does what?
(a) Exists.
(b) Is of the majority.
(c) Holds power.
(d) Has logic.

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

5. "A priori" means what?
(a) Knowledge without actual experience.
(b) The first knowledge.
(c) Knowledge from first-hand experience.
(d) Knowledge derived from a moral source.

Short Answer Questions

1. When American writers exaggerate the importance of a subject, de Tocqueville says it gets lost in what?

2. In America, young men are given freedom when they reach what age?

3. The people in a democracy instinctively acknowledge that the interest of the many is more valuable than that of whom?

4. The democratic writer assumes that man is what?

5. About what does de Tocqueville believe aristocrats are busy writing?

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