Quiz for Document 21.2: Alexis de Tocqueville Describes the June Days in Paris (1848)

Question 21.3

1. Tocqueville’s views can best be characterized as those of

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Question 21.4

2. In his analysis of the uprising in June 1848, Tocqueville concludes, “This obscure and mistaken conception of right, combined with brute force, imparted to it an energy, tenacity and strength it would never have had on its own.” What is “this obscure and mistaken conception of right”?

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Question 21.5

3. At the end of this excerpt, Tocqueville maintains that “great numbers of peasants, bourgeois, large landowners and nobles” came to fight against the Parisian workers on behalf of the government. In this passage, he is arguing that

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