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

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

3. What are the questions about in Paine's last letter to the people of England?
(a) Only power.
(b) Only honor.
(c) Power and honor.
(d) Power, honor, and authority.

4. What does a strong government assure against?
(a) Civil war, poverty, and treason.
(b) Civil war, but not poverty.
(c) Civil war and poverty.
(d) Poverty, but not civil war or treason.

5. 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 complicated the English laws are.
(d) How difficult the English laws are to change.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Paine think about the idea of being a king through heredity?

2. How many days before the taking of the Bastille did Marquis de La Fayette make a speech?

3. How many questions does Paine address in his final letter to the people of England?

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

5. How long does Burke think English subjects should serve in the Parliament?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Paine describes Benjamin Franklin's historical role in the French Constitution?

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

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

4. What disappoints Paine about the limited examples of solid government that are available?

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

6. What are the civil rights that Paine believes should be applied to government?

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

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

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

10. How did the American army defeat General Howe?

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