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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Volume 1, Chapter 6-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to de Tocqueville, equality can enable what?
(a) Power.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Hope.
(d) Freedom.

2. Before the American Revolution, what were the two great political parties?
(a) The Federalist and the Republican parties.
(b) The Federalist and the State parties.
(c) The Federalist and the Democratic parties.
(d) The Federalist and the Anti-Federalist parties.

3. Who gets the powers not enumerated to the federal government?
(a) The townships.
(b) The states.
(c) The people.
(d) The judiciary.

4. What feeds on ignorance, according to the Puritans' religious views?
(a) The devil.
(b) Stupidity.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Aristocracy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When can a judge refuse to enforce a law?

2. De Tocqueville believes that there must be complete freedom of what?

3. According to de Tocqueville, in Europe men obey what?

4. De Tocqueville observes that judges are not elected, but are what?

5. What kind of impact does the American press have on its people?

(see the answer key)

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