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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens, by the National Assembly of France, Observations on the Declarations of Rights, Miscellaneous Chapter, Conclusion.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Paine depict his feelings in the Preface about the way readers of his work were being punished in some countries?
(a) Remorseful.
(b) Resentful.
(c) Confused.
(d) Appauled.

2. 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?
(a) Its limit.
(b) Its extent.
(c) Its origin.
(d) Its relevance.

3. Instead of rights, what did Paine say was included in Burke's arguments?
(a) Misinformation.
(b) Surveys.
(c) Clauses.
(d) Hypothesis.

4. In Rights of Man, what did Paine say society granted men?
(a) Very little.
(b) Nothing.
(c) A lot.
(d) Everything.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which right did the French people have that Paine cited as something the English people did not have?

2. Why did Paine think that Burke refused to compare the French and British Constitutions?

3. How did Paine describe reasoning with the states in the Preface?

4. What did Paine do to help the cause being fought for in the American Revolution?

5. How many prefaces did the first part of Rights of Man have?

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