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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Democracy promotes spending energy on what types of tasks?
(a) Intellectual.
(b) Religious.
(c) Material.
(d) Artistic.

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

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

5. What type of people are educated and serve to bring reason to debates through logic?
(a) Politicians.
(b) Critics.
(c) Statesmen.
(d) Lawyers.

Short Answer Questions

1. In de Tocqueville's observations, compared to European legislation, American legislation is what?

2. The American historian holds individuals accountable for what?

3. What is one of the best safeguards against potential tyranny of the majority in America?

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

5. In a democracy, people take a special interest in the affairs of the state in order to do what?

Short Essay Questions

1. On what single principle does democracy, as a political system, rely?

2. What are some of the suggestions that equality makes to the beliefs of the American people?

3. What is the definition of a regime?

4. De Tocqueville believes that political parties are what to democratic societies?

5. According to the author, what is the reason free people obey laws?

6. According to de Tocqueville, what are the differences between the American and European press?

7. What, according to the author, are some of the downsides of democracy?

8. According to de Tocqueville, why does the United States only produce journalistic literature?

9. After the American Revolutionary war, the government defined, very precisely, the powers that belonged to whom?

10. What did the government establish in order to maintain the balance of power between the Confederation and the states when the rights of the states were questioned?

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