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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Rights of Man, Part II.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the questions about in Paine's last letter to the people of England?
(a) Only honor.
(b) Power and honor.
(c) Only power.
(d) Power, honor, and authority.

2. According to Paine, whose role in the French Revolution should not be diminished?
(a) John Adams.
(b) Abraham Lincoln.
(c) George Washington.
(d) Benjamin Franklin.

3. According to Paine, what is the difference between society and government?
(a) North versus South.
(b) Right versus wrong.
(c) Positivism versus negativism.
(d) East versus West.

4. What tactic will the king use to gain favor in the long run if he cannot rule through force in the short run?
(a) Information.
(b) Bribery.
(c) Subtlety.
(d) War.

5. What does Paine think about the idea of being a king through heredity?
(a) He thinks it is absurd and unnatural.
(b) He thinks it is unnatural, but not absurd.
(c) He thinks it is reasonable and unflawed.
(d) He thinks it is flawed, but not unreasonable.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Paine prove in order to dispel a myth about government?

2. What does Paine use examples from scripture to explain?

3. What replaced hopelessness during a long battle, as Paine recounts?

4. Which years of the American Revolution did America have no government?

5. Whose sermon given to celebrate the anniversary of the English Revolution does Burke misrepresent?

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