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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the lack of monarchy result in for Britain before the kings?
(a) A need for war.
(b) A lack of commerce.
(c) A lack of war.
(d) A need for commerce.

2. Why does Paine believe that America will succeed?
(a) Because of great numbers.
(b) Because of unity.
(c) Because of its economic status.
(d) Because of its political status.

3. Why does Paine state that America took up arms against England?
(a) America had become more prosperous than almost all other countries.
(b) England forced the hand of America.
(c) America had become more prosperous than England.
(d) Other countries forced the hand of America.

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

5. How long does Burke think English subjects should serve in the Parliament?
(a) Only the first three quarters of their lives.
(b) Only the first half of their lives.
(c) Never.
(d) Forever.

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

7. According to Paine, what is the difference between society and government?
(a) East versus West.
(b) Right versus wrong.
(c) Positivism versus negativism.
(d) North versus South.

8. What is the result of using faith for political reasons?
(a) It undermines only the religion involved.
(b) It undermines all religions.
(c) It undermines the religions that are not involved.
(d) It undermines the right to practice religion freely.

9. How does Paine describe tyranny?
(a) An opponent that once could have been easily defeated, but no longer.
(b) An opponent that is not easily defeated now, but will be in the future.
(c) An opponent that is not easily defeated.
(d) An opponent that is easily defeated.

10. When did Edmund Burke attack the French Revolution in a book?
(a) 1791.
(b) 1718.
(c) 1719.
(d) 1781.

11. In the Introduction, what does Paine state about the thoughts of the book?
(a) They are popular for all of the country.
(b) They are popular for half of the country.
(c) They may have been popular at an earlier date.
(d) They may not be popular.

12. What do the English people indicate with their silence?
(a) Their inability to change the laws.
(b) Their objection to the laws.
(c) Their acceptance of the laws.
(d) Their inability to understand the laws.

13. When does Paine wish the Revolution had begun?
(a) Eight months earlier.
(b) Eight days later.
(c) Eight months later.
(d) Eight days earlier.

14. What does Paine believe would end government through hereditary?
(a) Having each king only serve for five years.
(b) Having each king elected.
(c) Having each king only serve for ten years.
(d) Having each king only serve two terms.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was the law invented that took the freedom away from the English subjects?

3. How does Burke describe Louis XVI?

4. How does Thomas Paine write the book Common Sense?

5. What does Paine attribute his literary career to?

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