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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many days before the taking of the Bastille did Marquis de La Fayette make a speech?
(a) Three.
(b) Five.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

2. How many times does Burke mention the Bastille in his book?
(a) Only twice.
(b) Only three times.
(c) None.
(d) Only once.

3. At what age can a monarch be appointed in Britain?
(a) At age twenty.
(b) At any age.
(c) At age ten.
(d) At age fifteen.

4. Why do Englishmen defend their king?
(a) Out of both reason and national pride.
(b) Out of reason, rather than national pride.
(c) Out of national pride, rather than reason.
(d) Out of neither reason nor national pride.

5. For what does Paine compliment Washington?
(a) For his character, mind, and economic resources.
(b) For his character and mind.
(c) For his mind and economic resources.
(d) For his economic resources.

Short Answer Questions

1. What types of goals should the members of the elected have?

2. What point does Paine use Joan of Arc as an example to support?

3. What is the Rights of Man considered?

4. What do the English people indicate with their silence?

5. According to Paine, what goes against human nature?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Paine consider the state of America and his literary career after the revolution?

2. What are some of the other criticisms that Paine has about Howe?

3. What are the reasons Paine has in writing the Rights of Man and to whom is it presented?

4. How does the government of England increase its revenue through its disagreements with other countries?

5. What is the view of Gideon that Paine uses as an example?

6. What are the reasons Paine gives in support of America's Declaration of Independence?

7. How did Paine and Burke become enemies and what are Paine's concerns about Burke's pamphlet?

8. How does Paine think America's Continental Congress should be designed?

9. What does Paine think that America will gain by separating from England?

10. Why does Paine consider the English monarchy to be ineffective?

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