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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 wish America could have used against the British?
(a) The element of surprise.
(b) The heat of summer.
(c) The harshness of winter.
(d) The use of inside information.

2. What does Paine believe each generation should have?
(a) Its own ideals, values, and choices in government.
(b) The ideals and values of the preceding government.
(c) Its own ideals, but the values of the preceding government.
(d) Its own values, but the ideals of the preceding government.

3. What saddens Paine about the analogies made to good and solid government?
(a) They involve Britain, Greece, Rome, France, and Spain.
(b) They involve Britain.
(c) They involve Greece and Rome.
(d) They involve France and Spain.

4. What is the famous quote by Paine that starts the section, The Crisis?
(a) These are the men whose soul's need to be tested.
(b) These are the times that men's souls are tested.
(c) These are the times that try men's souls.
(d) These are the men whose soul's have been tried.

5. When was the law invented that took the freedom away from the English subjects?
(a) The seventeenth century.
(b) The fifteenth century.
(c) The sixteenth century.
(d) The fourteenth century.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Howe support that draws Paine's criticism?

2. What does Paine explain about the Almighty's response after Eve bites the apple?

3. How many times does Burke mention the Bastille in his book?

4. In the Christian tale, where is Satan banished to by the Almighty?

5. How many people witnessed and documented the Resurrection?

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