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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Volume 2, Part 2: Chapter 1-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. American literature is made up of the two extremes of what, according to de Tocqueville?
(a) The world.
(b) Passion.
(c) Imagination.
(d) Reality.

2. Judges are accountable to what?
(a) The laws they are representing.
(b) The people who elected them.
(c) The people who appointed them.
(d) The laws they make.

3. Democracies tend to value what over liberty?
(a) Political association.
(b) Equality.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Rights.

4. Political associations exist at the national level and are most effective at what level?
(a) The township level.
(b) The local level.
(c) The state level.
(d) The national level.

5. Because the settlers imported most of their technical knowledge, when they got to America they only had to do what?
(a) Adapt it to American ideas and situations.
(b) Create the theory to go behind it.
(c) Remember it.
(d) Put it into practice.

Short Answer Questions

1. Democratic regimes will value general well-being over what?

2. Before the American Revolution, what were the two great political parties?

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

4. De Tocqueville believes that democracy provides an authority of its own by replacing the certitudes of the intellectual with what?

5. De Tocqueville observed that Americans like to explain everything as a result of human what?

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