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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Burke continue to perpetuate with his actions?
(a) A false sense of security for the nations.
(b) England's decreased status in the world.
(c) France's decreased status in the world.
(d) Animosity between the nations.

2. Which one of the following is not included in the natural rights Paine believes should be retained by people after they are born?
(a) The right to stand up for a cause.
(b) The right to be provided for.
(c) The right to practice religion.
(d) The right to procure happiness.

3. What does Paine hope the English people will realize from Burke's pamphlet?
(a) How easy the English laws are to change.
(b) How archaic the English laws are.
(c) How difficult the English laws are to change.
(d) How complicated the English laws are.

4. How does Paine describe Burke's analysis of France?
(a) Darkness attempting to conceal light.
(b) Darkness attempting to deny light.
(c) Darkness attempting to illuminate light.
(d) Darkness attempting to destroy light.

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

6. What is the Rights of Man considered?
(a) A treatise.
(b) An essay.
(c) A novel.
(d) A speech.

7. According to Paine, whose role in the French Revolution should not be diminished?
(a) John Adams.
(b) Benjamin Franklin.
(c) George Washington.
(d) Abraham Lincoln.

8. According to British law, how long do the children of the king have the right to rule over every common person?
(a) As long as the government reigns.
(b) Only up until the third generation.
(c) Only up until the second generation.
(d) Only for the first generation.

9. What types of goals should the members of the elected have?
(a) The same goals as the body.
(b) The same goals as the largest populated cities.
(c) The same goals as half of the body.
(d) The same goals as other countries.

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

11. What does Paine wish America could have used against the British?
(a) The heat of summer.
(b) The use of inside information.
(c) The harshness of winter.
(d) The element of surprise.

12. What does Paine believe should never separate the elected from the electors?
(a) Action, but not belief.
(b) Belief, action, or money.
(c) Belief, but not action.
(d) Belief or action.

13. How does Paine describe Burke's descriptions of the French during the Revolution?
(a) Disturbing and predictable.
(b) Disturbing, vulgar, and predictable.
(c) Disturbing and vulgar.
(d) Vulgar and predictable.

14. What does Paine think about the idea of being a king through heredity?
(a) He thinks it is reasonable and unflawed.
(b) He thinks it is absurd and unnatural.
(c) He thinks it is flawed, but not unreasonable.
(d) He thinks it is unnatural, but not absurd.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many years of the Revolution does Paine discuss in a letter to the Inhabitants of America?

3. What grows along with a society?

4. Whom was the Rights of Man presented to?

5. How does Paine describe tyranny?

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