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

2. Which one of the following was a type of preface that Rights of Man included?
(a) Extended.
(b) General.
(c) Limited.
(d) Illustrated.

3. What distinction did Paine make in the Preface?
(a) Between the state, the nation and the government.
(b) Between the state and the religion.
(c) Between the nation and the government.
(d) Between the state and the nation.

4. 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 neither the principles that empowered tyrants nor the 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 principles that empowered tyrants, not men themselves.

5. What three things did Paine believe would progress as a result of future Revolutions?
(a) Reason, commerce, and universal war.
(b) Reason, universal peace, and commerce.
(c) Universal war, commerce, and governmental politics.
(d) Reason, universal peace, and governmental politics.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. Using history to support his opinion, what did Paine find unsurprising about how governments began?

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

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