View a FREE sample

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 did Paine think were society's greatest laws?
(a) The laws of independence.
(b) The laws of reason.
(c) The laws of equality.
(d) The laws of nature.

2. What did Paine say made actions right or wrong with Burke's flawed line of thinking?
(a) The future.
(b) Stipulation.
(c) The past.
(d) Speculation.

3. To show the effectiveness of a government without a monarchy, how did Paine refer to the United States of America?
(a) The U.S. was prospering without 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. had the ability to reverse the effects of a monarchy.

4. Challenging Burke's view that the government had knowledge, what did Paine insist that Burke could not prove?
(a) That the government was never based on authority.
(b) That the government was based on authority.
(c) That the government ever had authority.
(d) That the government never had authority.

5. In order to prove the senselessness of Burke's position on the monarchy, what did Paine maintain could not be done to individual rights?
(a) They could not be borrowed, transferred or annihilated.
(b) They could not be transferred or annihilated.
(c) They could not be borrowed or annihilated.
(d) They could not be borrowed or transferred.

Short Answer Questions

1. As explained by Paine, what is the purpose of civil rights?

2. Compared to previous Revolutions, what did Paine think future Revolutions would be like?

3. 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?

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?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 343 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample