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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. What type of government does de Tocqueville say is "lurking behind every corner" for most citizens of the United States, assuming democracy failed?
(a) Anarchy.
(b) Monarchy.
(c) Republic.
(d) Aristocracy.

2. The tendency of Americans to behave differently towards outsiders is sometimes known as what?
(a) Xenophobia.
(b) Isolationism.
(c) Archeophobia.
(d) Alienation.

3. What type of regime does de Tocqueville believe is more oppressive than a dictatorship?
(a) A tyrannical democracy.
(b) A tyrannical monarchy.
(c) A despotic monarchy.
(d) A despotic democracy.

4. When compared to women in a traditional aristocratic regime, de Tocqueville says American women are more _________.
(a) Dismissive.
(b) Independent.
(c) Ignorant.
(d) Subservient.

5. The tendency of people to implement equality first in the hope that freedom will follow is a what?
(a) Political ideal.
(b) Political reflex.
(c) Political truism.
(d) Political ideology.

Short Answer Questions

1. In America, what type of rank cannot be distinguished immediately?

2. Democratic countries do not want revolution or ______, in de Tocqueville's beliefs?

3. De Tocqueville believes that the nations of his time cannot prevent the conditions of men from becoming _________________.

4. De Tocqueville observes that in times of peace, the quality of a military in a democracy does what?

5. Decentralization of the governmental administration has multiplied what?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to de Tocqueville, how do political associations combat individualism and egoism?

2. What is one of the civil effects of the American society?

3. What is the only great inequality that de Tocqueville sees in American society?

4. What does the lack of rigidity in a family relationship in a democratic society allow the family to do, according to de Tocqueville?

5. What is at least one difference between the family in a democratic society and in an aristocratic society?

6. In de Tocqueville's observations, how do Americans act when they meet with strangers outside their borders?

7. As men seeking equality become more alike, what is one possibility for a type of tyrannical regime in a democratic society, according to de Tocqueville?

8. According to de Tocqueville, what do citizens of the United States think would replace democracy if democracy failed in America?

9. Why are democratic societies less likely to wage war?

10. What is one reason that democracies do not value equality and liberty equally?

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