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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How should people self-impose laws in order to exist harmoniously in the absence of government?
(a) On a personal and professional level.
(b) Only on a personal level.
(c) There can be no laws without government.
(d) Only on a professional level.

2. What area do Paine and the Marquis differ on?
(a) Why political reform should occur.
(b) When political reform can occur.
(c) Where political reform needs to occur.
(d) How political reform can occur.

3. Why did people who lived in ancient times choose not to cultivate the land they occupied?
(a) To keep a constant supply of food and water.
(b) To remain safe from the animals in the wilderness.
(c) To prevent the theft of land.
(d) To prevent disputes over land rights.

4. Who is hurt the most when a government tries to prohibit its people from reading a work the government disapproves of?
(a) The publisher.
(b) The people.
(c) The government.
(d) The author.

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

6. How does Paine define a civilized society?
(a) One that has three different points of views.
(b) One that has extreme opposites.
(c) One that has extreme similarities.
(d) One that has only one point of view.

7. What claim does Paine make about cultivation?
(a) It is one of the best things to ever be invented.
(b) It is a necessary thing.
(c) It is one of the worst things to ever be invented.
(d) It is an unnecessary thing.

8. What does Paine explain about the Almighty's response after Eve bites the apple?
(a) The Almighty banishes Satan to a pit.
(b) The Almighty banishes Satan to a mountain.
(c) The Almighty banishes Satan to a cave.
(d) The Almighty allows Satan to remain on earth.

9. What does Paine think civilized states need to develop remedies for?
(a) To cure ignorance.
(b) To cure evil.
(c) To cure apathy.
(d) To cure illness.

10. What does Paine compare to the limited freedom of people by the government?
(a) Anarchy.
(b) War.
(c) Poverty.
(d) Treason.

11. How does Paine describe the people of ancient times in Agrarian Justice?
(a) Settled.
(b) Underdeveloped.
(c) Overdeveloped.
(d) Nomadic.

12. Who does Paine think should be eligible to receive compensation for their disinheritance?
(a) Everyone, excluding land owners.
(b) Only land owners and those who plan to purchase land.
(c) Only land owners.
(d) Everyone, including land owners.

13. How many books did Burke publish after the Rights of Man was released?
(a) Three.
(b) None.
(c) One.
(d) Two.

14. What war does Paine believe might have been the inspiration for a Christian tale about the Almighty?
(a) The Giants against Neptune.
(b) The Giants against Mercury.
(c) The Giants against Saturn.
(d) The Giants against Jupiter.

15. What does Paine think is odd about the conversation between Eve and Satan?
(a) Eve is not confused.
(b) The shortness of the conversation.
(c) Eve is not frightened.
(d) The extensive length of the conversation.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way does the concept of holding property disinherit people?

2. After being banished by the Almighty, where did Satan later reappear?

3. On which concept is the new Whig party based?

4. To what does Paine compare kings?

5. How well were Paine's views on religion known when Age of Reason was written?

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