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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. How did Paine describe reasoning with the states in the Preface?
(a) Pointless.
(b) Unacceptable.
(c) Confusing.
(d) Commendable.

2. Which rights did Paine include as ones that the government should guarantee from the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Of Citizens, by the National Assembly of France?
(a) Liberty, property, security and resistance.
(b) Liberty, property, security, wages and resistance.
(c) Liberty, property, wages and security.
(d) Liberty, security, religion and resistance.

3. As explained by Paine, what is the purpose of civil rights?
(a) To reinforce natural rights.
(b) To reinvent natural rights.
(c) To protect natural rights.
(d) To promote what natural rights cannot.

4. Although Paine supported the Revolutions and their intentions, what did he make clear about his opinion of war?
(a) He would be opposed to another war.
(b) He was no friend of war.
(c) He was waiting for another war.
(d) He was tired of war.

5. How did Paine react to Burke's refusal to respond to Part One of Rights of Man?
(a) He found it surprising.
(b) He found it cowardly.
(c) He found it inexusable.
(d) He found it frustrating.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Paine explained in Of Society and Civilization, what has nature given man to ensure the cooperation needed to survive?

2. What impressed Paine about the National Assembly in Rights of Man?

3. In concluding Of the Old and New Systems of Government, what did Paine state was the basis for free governments?

4. Ending the Miscellaneous Chapter, what did Paine think was missing from Burke's objection to the French Revolution?

5. What is a good description of the second part of Rights of Man?

(see the answer key)

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