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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. What distinction did Paine make in the Preface?
(a) Between the state and the nation.
(b) Between the state, the nation and the government.
(c) Between the nation and the government.
(d) Between the state and the religion.

2. In concluding Of the Old and New Systems of Government, what did Paine state was the basis for free governments?
(a) Law and persons.
(b) Neither law nor persons.
(c) Law, not persons.
(d) Persons, not law.

3. What idea did Burke's views lead to, according to Paine in the Miscellaneous Chapter?
(a) Government is governed by too many principles.
(b) Government cannot be governed by too little principles.
(c) Government cannot be governed by too many principles.
(d) Government is governed by no principles.

4. How did Paine describe human authority while correcting Burke's misrepresentation of the Declaration of the Rights of Man?
(a) Secondary.
(b) Irrelevant.
(c) Non-existent.
(d) Derivative.

5. Which event did Paine refer to in Of the Origin of the Present Old Governments as he discussed the formation of the English government?
(a) The Hundred Years' War.
(b) The English Civil War.
(c) The Norman Conquest.
(d) The Italian Wars.

Short Answer Questions

1. Building on the foundation of Part One, in what style was Part Two of Rights of Man written?

2. When did the burning and devastation of London take place that Paine referred to in his attempt to disprove Burke's opinion of the French people?

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

4. What did Paine think could be abolished by a European Congress?

5. Which one of the following is not included in the rights that Dr. Price thought the English people had?

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