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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Volume 2, Part 4: Chapter 1-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "A priori" means what?
(a) Knowledge without actual experience.
(b) Knowledge from first-hand experience.
(c) The first knowledge.
(d) Knowledge derived from a moral source.

2. The separation between the workmen and the owners has created a new aristocracy based on what?
(a) Nobility.
(b) Money.
(c) Family.
(d) Bloodlines.

3. In de Tocqueville's observations, the patriotism of Americans is more akin to cupidity than to what?
(a) A sense of obligation.
(b) A sense of duty or pride.
(c) A sense of country.
(d) A sense of requirement.

4. Democracy influences the citizens' political views and what other types of views?
(a) Moral.
(b) Industrial.
(c) Religious.
(d) Social.

5. In America, young men are given freedom when they reach what age?
(a) Teenagers.
(b) Adolescence.
(c) Nineteen.
(d) Adulthood.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. De Tocqueville observes that, while traveling outside their own country, Americans tend to travel with signs associated with _______________?

3. Democracy counters individualism by insuring that common good is understood as what?

4. What type of person does de Tocqueville say the American writer sees himself as?

5. What does de Tocqueville define as a state of mental ease akin to physical and mental numbness?

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