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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Rights of Man.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which one of the following is not included in the rights that Dr. Price thought the English people had?
(a) The right to cashier governors for misconduct.
(b) The right to frame a government for themselves.
(c) The right to claim a government funded security bond.
(d) The right to choose their own governors.

2. In order to clarify an important aspect of the French Revolution, what did Paine say was the intention of the French people?
(a) To rebel against principles that empowered tyrants, not men themselves.
(b) To rebel against both the principles that empowered tyrants and men themselves.
(c) To rebel against the men themselves, not the principles that empowered tyrants.
(d) To rebel against neither the principles that empowered tyrants nor the men themselves.

3. Depicting the flaw in Burke's way of thinking, what did Paine indicate was being ignored by Burke?
(a) Plots against the government.
(b) Plots on behalf of the government.
(c) Plots on behalf of other governments.
(d) Plots against other governments.

4. After pointing out the weaknesses of Burke's position, what did Paine indicate about Burke's principle of past English laws?
(a) It contradicted itself.
(b) It outsmarted itself.
(c) It defeated itself.
(d) It diminished itself.

5. According to the French Constitution that Paine referred to, how often must the National Assembly be elected?
(a) Every three years.
(b) Every year.
(c) Every two years.
(d) Every four years.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Rights of Man, what did Paine say society granted men?

3. In the beginning of Rights of Man, how did Paine describe Burke's pamphlet?

4. What did Paine discuss about the French government at the end of Rights of Man?

5. How did Paine depict his feelings in the Preface about the way readers of his work were being punished in some countries?

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