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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Of Constitutions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What style was Part One of Rights of Man written in by Paine?
(a) Provoking.
(b) Popular.
(c) Traditional.
(d) Educational.

2. What did Paine think Burke had drastically underestimated by calling the French Revolution a violent revolt?
(a) The previous wars of England.
(b) The level of tryrrany in France.
(c) The previous wars of France.
(d) The level of tyrrany in England.

3. 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, wages and resistance.
(b) Liberty, property, wages and security.
(c) Liberty, security, religion and resistance.
(d) Liberty, property, security and resistance.

4. How did Paine intend to defend the rights he wrote about in Rights of Man?
(a) Through reason.
(b) Through persistence.
(c) Through comparisons.
(d) Through justifications.

5. What did Paine say was the cause of the removal of aristocratic title for the French people?
(a) Natural differences.
(b) Natural equality.
(c) Human equality.
(d) Human differences.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Paine describe the monarchical government that the American Constitution avoided in Of Constitutions?

2. Why did Paine think that America was the only place in the world where Independence could be tried?

3. Considering the point that Paine made in Of Constitutions, what were governments designed to promote under a constitution?

4. In order to clarify an important aspect of the French Revolution, what did Paine say was the intention of the French people?

5. What mood was the beginning of the second Preface of Rights of Man written by Paine?

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