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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 attribute his literary career to?
(a) The revolution and his dedication to independence.
(b) Only the revolution.
(c) The revolution, his dedication to independence, and the will of the American people.
(d) Only his dedication to independence.

2. Whose sermon given to celebrate the anniversary of the English Revolution does Burke misrepresent?
(a) Richard Price.
(b) Joseph Priestley.
(c) Daniel Conway.
(d) James Mackintosh.

3. Where is Paine living when Burke's pamphlet is being published?
(a) Grenoble.
(b) Strasbourg.
(c) Paris.
(d) Bordeaux.

4. Which country has England chosen as its new foe when Paine writes the Rights of Man?
(a) Germany.
(b) France.
(c) Russia.
(d) Italy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What war does Paine believe might have been the inspiration for a Christian tale about the Almighty?

2. What does Paine think is created between religions by the existence of certain churches?

3. When did Edmund Burke attack the French Revolution in a book?

4. What does the term canonization refer to?

5. From where does Paine think Christianity adapted a lot of its philosophies?

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