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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Paine describe the Quakers?
(a) Offensive and loud.
(b) Quiet and inoffensive.
(c) Inoffensive but loud.
(d) Quiet but offensive.

2. How did the men in the American army fight Howe?
(a) They fought for property, not an ideal.
(b) They fought for an ideal and property.
(c) They fought for an ideal, not property.
(d) They fought neither for an ideal nor property.

3. 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 is easily defeated.
(d) An opponent that once could have been easily defeated, but no longer.

4. What grows along with a society?
(a) A need for less taxation.
(b) A need for more taxation.
(c) A need for fewer regulations.
(d) A need for more regulations.

5. How does Paine refer to himself, with regards to Howe?
(a) A friend and an enemy.
(b) A friend and countryman.
(c) A friend, enemy, and countryman.
(d) An enemy and countryman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Paine believe that America will succeed?

2. What replaced hopelessness during a long battle, as Paine recounts?

3. What does Paine think about the idea of being a king through heredity?

4. What does government promote?

5. What does society promote?

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