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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 find interesting about the Immaculate Conception?
(a) It can be disproven.
(b) It cannot be disproven.
(c) Its meaning has changed with time.
(d) Its meaning has not changed with time.

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

3. What does Paine use as a miserable example of the Constitution that America is trying to adopt?
(a) Belgium.
(b) Holland.
(c) Germany.
(d) Switzerland.

4. What does Paine profess about himself in The Crisis?
(a) He does believe in miracles.
(b) He is superstitious.
(c) He is not superstitious.
(d) He does not believe in miracles.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years of the Revolution does Paine discuss in a letter to the Inhabitants of America?

2. What is the English government's position on the French Revolution?

3. As Paine states in The Crisis, what word should never replace the word "Christian"?

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

5. What does Paine hope the English people will realize from Burke's pamphlet?

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