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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. Freedom of the press is described as what type of weapon?
(a) Dagger.
(b) Mace.
(c) Cleaver.
(d) Two-edged sword.

2. What is an essential tool for maintaining liberty?
(a) Protection of the press.
(b) Protection of the First Amendment.
(c) Freedom of the press.
(d) Freedom of religion.

3. The democratic writer assumes that man is what?
(a) Logical.
(b) Powerless.
(c) Thinking.
(d) Powerful.

4. According to de Tocqueville, in Europe men obey what?
(a) Justice.
(b) Men.
(c) God.
(d) Laws.

5. The New World is considered to be what, geographically, to the rest of the world?
(a) To the West.
(b) Isolated.
(c) To the East.
(d) Nearby.

Short Answer Questions

1. American settlers imported most of their technical language from where?

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

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

4. Who is considered a member of the aristocratic class in America?

5. De Tocqueville compares equality to what weapon?

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