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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 long would news take to travel from England to America if the two countries were to reconcile at this point?
(a) Two or three months.
(b) Four or five weeks.
(c) Four or five months.
(d) Two or three weeks.

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

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

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

5. 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) Animosity between the nations.
(d) France's decreased status in the world.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Paine describe Burke's descriptions of the French during the Revolution?

2. How many total pages is Burke's denouncement of the French Revolution?

3. What is the famous quote by Paine that starts the section, The Crisis?

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

5. Whom was the Rights of Man presented to?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why is it necessary for the states to be separated?

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

5. When does Paine wish the Revolution had begun and why?

6. Why is there a need for regulations and government in general?

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

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

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

10. What does Paine think the effects of Burke's pamphlets will be and what are Burke's reasons for publishing them?

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