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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What will the first twenty years of American independence not predict, according to Paine?
(a) The next twenty years.
(b) The next fifteen years.
(c) The next ten years.
(d) The next five years.

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

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

4. In his letter to Howe, what comparison does Paine make about arguing with a man who has no use for authority?
(a) Giving medicine to the dead.
(b) Talking to a wall.
(c) Talking to the dead.
(d) Reasoning with a wall.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What city did the British incorrectly assume was the center of America when they attacked it?

2. What does Paine wish America could have used against the British?

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

4. For what does Paine compliment Washington?

5. Why does Paine state that America took up arms against England?

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