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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part the Second, Combining Principle of Practice, Preface and Introduction, Chapter 1, Of Society and Civilization, Chapter 2, Of the Origin of the Present Old Governments, Chapter 3, Of the Old and New Systems of Government.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Because of the American and French Revolutions, what was being undermined about the old governments in Paine's opinion?
(a) Control.
(b) Legitimacy.
(c) History.
(d) Authority.

2. According to Paine in the Preface, who was his audience for Rights of Man?
(a) A small part of the world.
(b) Half the world.
(c) The whole world.
(d) The western world.

3. Which right did the French people have that Paine cited as something the English people did not have?
(a) Right to bear arms.
(b) Freedom of the press.
(c) Right to a fair trial.
(d) Freedom of speech.

4. Compared to previous Revolutions, what did Paine think future Revolutions would be like?
(a) Less expensive.
(b) Longer.
(c) Shorter.
(d) More expensive.

5. Depicting the flaw in Burke's way of thinking, what did Paine indicate was being ignored by Burke?
(a) Plots against the government.
(b) Plots on behalf of the government.
(c) Plots against other governments.
(d) Plots on behalf of other governments.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which one of the following is not included in Paine's list of the general forms of government authority?

2. What type of formal government did the frontier areas of America have before the American Revolution?

3. How many articles did Paine discuss in Observations on the Declarations of Rights?

4. How did Paine describe America in Part Two of Rights of Man?

5. As Paine wrote in Rights of Man, what must each generation set for themselves to avoid being servants of the past?

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