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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Age of Reason.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Burke describe Louis XVI?
(a) A beaten monarch.
(b) A mild monarch.
(c) A resourceful monarch.
(d) A fearful monarch.

2. How does Paine describe Burke's analysis of France?
(a) Darkness attempting to destroy light.
(b) Darkness attempting to deny light.
(c) Darkness attempting to conceal light.
(d) Darkness attempting to illuminate light.

3. How much of the New Testament did Jesus write?
(a) Only the second half.
(b) None.
(c) Very little.
(d) Only the first half.

4. How does Paine describe tyranny?
(a) An opponent that is easily defeated.
(b) An opponent that is not easily defeated now, but will be in the future.
(c) An opponent that is not easily defeated.
(d) An opponent that once could have been easily defeated, but no longer.

5. What does the term canonization refer to?
(a) The process in which a person requests to become a saint.
(b) The ceremony performed before a person can request to become a saint.
(c) The ceremony performed after a person is declared a saint.
(d) The process in which a person becomes a saint.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Paine wish the Revolution had begun?

2. How does Paine describe Burke's descriptions of the French during the Revolution?

3. How does Paine describe the Quakers?

4. What does Paine believe each generation should have?

5. What point does Paine use Joan of Arc as an example to support?

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