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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Crisis.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does a strong government assure against?
(a) Poverty, but not civil war or treason.
(b) Civil war, but not poverty.
(c) Civil war, poverty, and treason.
(d) Civil war and poverty.

2. In an ideal world, who would make decisions regarding regulations?
(a) All members of government.
(b) All members of society.
(c) A select few members of government.
(d) A select few members of society.

3. What does Paine consider the government to be?
(a) A necessary evil.
(b) A necessary problem.
(c) An unnecessary problem.
(d) An unnecessary evil.

4. Why do Englishmen defend their king?
(a) Out of neither reason nor national pride.
(b) Out of reason, rather than national pride.
(c) Out of national pride, rather than reason.
(d) Out of both reason and national pride.

5. What replaced hopelessness during a long battle, as Paine recounts?
(a) Fear.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Boldness.
(d) Vigor.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what age can a monarch be appointed in Britain?

2. What does Paine profess about himself in The Crisis?

3. What saddens Paine about the analogies made to good and solid government?

4. What does government promote?

5. How does Paine describe the Quakers?

(see the answer key)

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