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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Volume 2, Part 3: Chapter 14-26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. De Tocqueville observes that, while traveling outside their own country, Americans tend to travel with signs associated with _______________?
(a) Higher ranked aristocrats.
(b) Higher ranked industrial activities.
(c) Higher ranked scholarly pursuits.
(d) Higher ranked political offices.

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

3. The people in a democracy instinctively acknowledge that the interest of the many is more valuable than that of whom?
(a) A small but active minority.
(b) The wealthy.
(c) The monarchy.
(d) A privileged few.

4. According to de Tocqueville, Americans seek ______________, but only within a narrow range.
(a) Fortune.
(b) Success.
(c) Privilege.
(d) Rights.

5. What type of regime did de Tocqueville study in America?
(a) Aristocracy.
(b) Theocracy.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Populacity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the American people write?

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

3. Compared to the European system, de Tocqueville says the America court system is what?

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

5. Judges are accountable to what?

(see the answer key)

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