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 Burke think about England's past laws?
(a) They could be altered.
(b) They should only be altered every two hundred years.
(c) They could not be altered.
(d) They should only be altered every one hundred years.

2. Besides defending themselves, what else did Paine say the people were defending by storming the Bastille?
(a) Their money.
(b) Their land.
(c) Their freedom.
(d) Their past.

3. In the Preface of Rights of Man, who did Paine think should go directly to the people?
(a) Defenders of Justice.
(b) Friends of Justice.
(c) Defenders of Liberty.
(d) Friends of Liberty.

4. How did Paine describe America in Part Two of Rights of Man?
(a) A country of rapid production.
(b) A country of limitless progress.
(c) A country of rapid progress.
(d) A country of limitless production.

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