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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Paine say made actions right or wrong with Burke's flawed line of thinking?
(a) Stipulation.
(b) The past.
(c) Speculation.
(d) The future.

2. What is a good description of the second part of Rights of Man?
(a) Philosophical.
(b) Autobiographical.
(c) Fictional.
(d) Biographical.

3. Which word did Paine use to describe the monarchy in the Miscellaneous Chapter?
(a) Illusion.
(b) Scam.
(c) Fallacy.
(d) Fraud.

4. Which one of the following was a type of preface that Rights of Man included?
(a) General.
(b) Extended.
(c) Limited.
(d) Illustrated.

5. Besides English, which other language was Rights of Man published in?
(a) French.
(b) German.
(c) Italian.
(d) Spanish.

6. After apologizing for the miscellany in the Miscellaneous Chapter, how did Paine describe Burke's book?
(a) Half miscellany.
(b) Some miscellany.
(c) Mostly miscellany.
(d) All miscellany.

7. As he noted in the Preface, where did Paine desire to collect his political thoughts?
(a) In one place.
(b) In two places.
(c) In several places.
(d) In many places.

8. Why did Paine choose to write a Miscellaneous Chapter of miscellaneous thoughts?
(a) To guide the previous parts of the book.
(b) To preserve the flow of previous parts of the book.
(c) To act as a reference for previous parts of the book.
(d) To include things he had observed after writing previous parts of the book.

9. What did Paine think could be abolished by a European Congress?
(a) Taxation.
(b) Government.
(c) War.
(d) Politics.

10. What was the first part of Rights of Man written to accomplish?
(a) To address the people that disagreed with Burke.
(b) To address the people that agreed with Burke.
(c) To correct Burke's factual errors.
(d) To correct Burke's grammatical errors.

11. To begin the Preface, what was Paine's response to Burke's lack of support for the French Revolution?
(a) Anger.
(b) Amusement.
(c) Shock.
(d) Disapppointment.

12. As Paine pointed out in the Miscellaneous Chapter, what did Burke think the government had a monopoly on?
(a) Commerce.
(b) Wisdom.
(c) Power.
(d) Trade.

13. How did Paine think the English government viewed the French Revolution?
(a) They did not support it.
(b) He did not comment on their view.
(c) They supported it.
(d) They supported only certain aspects of it.

14. How did Paine describe reasoning with the states in the Preface?
(a) Pointless.
(b) Commendable.
(c) Confusing.
(d) Unacceptable.

15. According to Paine in the Preface, who was his audience for Rights of Man?
(a) The whole world.
(b) The western world.
(c) Half the world.
(d) A small part of the world.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Paine, where did Burke derive his arguments from?

2. According to the French Constitution that Paine referred to, how often must the National Assembly be elected?

3. Because of the American and French Revolutions, what was being undermined about the old governments in Paine's opinion?

4. Depicting the flaw in Burke's way of thinking, what did Paine indicate was being ignored by Burke?

5. In the Conclusion of Part One, how did Paine label the new era that was producing successful Republics?

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