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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. To show the effectiveness of a government without a monarchy, how did Paine refer to the United States of America?
(a) The U.S. had the ability to reverse the effects of a monarchy.
(b) The U.S. will never resort to a monarchy.
(c) The U.S. was the only example of an overthrown monarchy.
(d) The U.S. was prospering without a monarchy.

2. As mentioned by Paine in Of the Old and New Systems of Government, which type of monarchy did Abbe Sieyes prefer?
(a) Generational.
(b) Elective.
(c) Hereditary.
(d) Selective.

3. Using history to support his opinion, what did Paine find unsurprising about how governments began?
(a) They began as murderers.
(b) They began as robbers.
(c) They began in ignorance.
(d) They began in chaos.

4. How long after the first part of Rights of Man was Part Two published?
(a) One month.
(b) Two months.
(c) Two years.
(d) One year.

5. What did Burke think about England's past laws?
(a) They could not be altered.
(b) They should only be altered every two hundred years.
(c) They should only be altered every one hundred years.
(d) They could be altered.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of work was Rights of Man?

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

3. Since the people are sovereign, what were the only type of actions that Paine thought should be stopped by the law?

4. Which aspect of the government's presumed knowledge could not be accounted for by Burke, according to the listing of his view's problems in the Miscellaneous Chapter?

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

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