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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Rights of Man, Part I.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the English Revolution take place?
(a) 1678.
(b) 1688.
(c) 1698.
(d) 1697.

2. What does Paine use examples from scripture to explain?
(a) How, but not why kings became prominent.
(b) How and why kings became prominent.
(c) How, why, and when kings became prominent.
(d) Why, but not how or when kings became prominent.

3. What tactic will the king use to gain favor in the long run if he cannot rule through force in the short run?
(a) War.
(b) Information.
(c) Bribery.
(d) Subtlety.

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

5. How many years of the Revolution does Paine discuss in a letter to the Inhabitants of America?
(a) The last three.
(b) The first four.
(c) The first three.
(d) The last four.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the result of using faith for political reasons?

3. How did the men in the American army fight Howe?

4. What does Paine use as a miserable example of the Constitution that America is trying to adopt?

5. How many total pages is Burke's denouncement of the French Revolution?

(see the answer key)

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