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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Paine use examples from scripture to explain?
(a) How and why kings became prominent.
(b) How, why, and when kings became prominent.
(c) How, but not why kings became prominent.
(d) Why, but not how or when kings became prominent.

2. What are the rumors about the reason behind Burke's pamphlet?
(a) He did it for financial reasons.
(b) He did it out of hatred for other countries.
(c) He did it to receive notoriety.
(d) He did it out of loyalty for his country.

3. Why didn't Paine reply to any of the responses to the Rights of Man?
(a) He did not think any of them could rival his own work.
(b) He did not have the time.
(c) He did not know about many of the responses written.
(d) He did not have the resources.

4. How did the conquerors treat defeated enemies in the earliest known governments?
(a) As paid employees.
(b) As individuals.
(c) As property.
(d) As equals.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Paine describe the Quakers?

2. At what age can a monarch be appointed in Britain?

3. According to the second part of the Rights of Man, when was Combining Principals and Practice written?

4. Which proverb does Paine refer to when commenting on the acts of Howe and Burgoyne?

5. What does Paine believe each generation should have?

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