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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Volume 2, Part 2: Chapter 10-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. De Tocqueville believes that people must exercise their political freedom by what?
(a) Participating in the process.
(b) Behaving as if they are free.
(c) Depending on each other.
(d) Doing what they want to do.

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

4. When were the first colonies established?
(a) Early 1500s.
(b) Early 1900s.
(c) Early 1600s.
(d) Early 1700s.

5. What does de Tocqueville define as a state of mental ease akin to physical and mental numbness?
(a) Mediocrity.
(b) Comfort.
(c) Ignorance.
(d) Bliss.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what does de Tocqueville say American writers find poetry?

3. De Tocqueville writes that Americans tend to reject all external human authority and rely, instead, on what?

4. The New World is considered to be what, geographically, to the rest of the world?

5. What requires years of hard and dedicated work before yielding a profit?

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