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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 the Resurrection?
(a) It was a timeless event.
(b) It was an incomparable event.
(c) It was a private event.
(d) It was a public event.

2. How did the conquerors treat defeated enemies in the earliest known governments?
(a) As equals.
(b) As paid employees.
(c) As property.
(d) As individuals.

3. When does Paine believe every person should be issued property?
(a) At ten years of age.
(b) At birth.
(c) At twenty years of age.
(d) At fifteen years of age.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What label does Paine give to revelations that have not been witnessed?

2. According to Paine, what age should a person be to receive compensation for an disinheritance?

3. What does the term canonization refer to?

4. What does Paine surmise Burke's view of government entails?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What opinion does Paine have of people who believe and follow Christianity?

2. How does Paine consider cultivation and dispossession?

3. What should civilized states be concerned about ?

4. What are Paine's thoughts on the Immaculate Conception and the Resurrection?

5. What is Paine's theory on how people who have been cheated of their land inheritance should be compensated?

6. What is the historical significance of the life of Jesus?

7. What is Paine's definition of a civilized society?

8. What example of an uncivilized society does Paine use in Agrarian Justice?

9. What is the proof of God's existence that Paine also believes is a guide for people to live their lives?

10. Why does Paine believe that mystery and Miracles are incompatible with religion?

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