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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What must be in place once a country becomes civilized?
(a) A system to change the natural state.
(b) A system to prove the validity of the natural state.
(c) A system to prevent the natural state from returning.
(d) A system to preserve the natural state.

2. How many people are born equal in a natural state?
(a) All of them.
(b) Some of them.
(c) Most of them.
(d) None of them.

3. Why didn't Paine reply to any of the responses to the Rights of Man?
(a) He did not know about many of the responses written.
(b) He did not think any of them could rival his own work.
(c) He did not have the resources.
(d) He did not have the time.

4. How many of the pamphlets printed in response to the Rights of Man does Paine consider worth remembering?
(a) Four.
(b) None.
(c) One.
(d) Two.

5. How does Paine consider those who follow the Christian tales?
(a) He does not have disdain for them.
(b) He does have disdain for them.
(c) He admires them.
(d) He has pity for them.

6. What season does Paine use in the metaphor that ends the second part of the Rights of Man?
(a) Winter.
(b) Summer.
(c) Fall.
(d) Spring.

7. What form does Satan take on in reappearing?
(a) A raven.
(b) A snake.
(c) A crow.
(d) A wolf.

8. Besides the length, what is the reason Paine wanted to separate the sections of the Rights of Man?
(a) It was easier for the people of the world to understand the smaller sections.
(b) He did not want Burke to be able to refute the second section.
(c) It was easier to release two sections on a limited budget.
(d) He wanted Burke to be able to refute the first section.

9. According to the second part of the Rights of Man, when was Combining Principals and Practice written?
(a) 1782.
(b) 1799.
(c) 1789.
(d) 1792.

10. Which countries have left room in their Constitution for revision if necessary in the future?
(a) America and England.
(b) America, France, and England.
(c) America and France.
(d) France and England.

11. What will happen to a person who denies another the right to practice a different religion?
(a) That person will never be able to change anyone else's mind.
(b) That person will never be able to legitimately discuss religion.
(c) That person will never be able to change his or her own mind.
(d) That person will never be able to criticize religion.

12. How many rebuttals did Burke make to Paine's Rights of Man?
(a) One.
(b) None.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

13. As mentioned by Paine in Age of Reason, what did Jesus preach?
(a) Only benevolence.
(b) Paine is unaware of the teachings of Jesus.
(c) Benevolence and morality.
(d) Only morality.

14. According to Paine, what age should a person be to receive compensation for an disinheritance?
(a) Twenty-one years of age.
(b) Twenty-five years of age.
(c) Thirty years of age.
(d) Eighteen years of age.

15. According to Paine, what is Burke incapable of understanding about the way government works?
(a) The difference between representation and a monarchy.
(b) The difference between democracy and representation.
(c) The difference between democracy, representation, and a monarchy.
(d) The difference between democracy and a monarchy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is not present in the Indian culture?

2. What makes Paine's goal of every person receiving property impossible?

3. Which years of the American Revolution did America have no government?

4. How much of the New Testament did Jesus write?

5. What ancient philosopher does Paine mention in Age of Reason?

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