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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What mood was the beginning of the second Preface of Rights of Man written by Paine?
(a) Angry.
(b) Exhausted.
(c) Defensive.
(d) Excited.

2. Which of the following did Paine speak out against in Rights of Man?
(a) Remarks on the Policies of the Allies with Respect to France.
(b) Thoughts on French Affairs.
(c) Reflections on the Revolution in France.
(d) Letters on a Regicide Peace.

3. In order to prove the senselessness of Burke's position on the monarchy, what did Paine maintain could not be done to individual rights?
(a) They could not be transferred or annihilated.
(b) They could not be borrowed or transferred.
(c) They could not be borrowed, transferred or annihilated.
(d) They could not be borrowed or annihilated.

4. As he stated in the Preface, who did Paine specifically intend to give an accurate account of the war to by writing Rights of Man?
(a) The English.
(b) The Italians.
(c) The French.
(d) The Americans.

5. What did Paine think should be used to justify laws?
(a) Principles.
(b) Future examples.
(c) Previous examples.
(d) Logic.

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

7. 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) Confused.
(c) Resentful.
(d) Appauled.

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

9. What did Paine do to help the cause being fought for in the American Revolution?
(a) He made a political case for it and planned its strategy.
(b) He made a political case for it and supported the troops.
(c) He supported the troops and planned the war's strategy.
(d) He made an ethical case for it, planned its strategy, and supported the troops.

10. Along with Dr. Price, which society did Paine think that Burke maligned?
(a) Society for Constitutional Information.
(b) American Revolution Society.
(c) Society for Law and Justice.
(d) Freedom Society.

11. According to Paine in the Miscellaneous Chapter, what did tyranny in the English government cause?
(a) Economic and international instability.
(b) Political, economic and international instability.
(c) Political and economic instability.
(d) Political instability.

12. What type of work was Rights of Man?
(a) A response.
(b) A warning.
(c) An invitation.
(d) A declaration.

13. Because of the American and French Revolutions, what was being undermined about the old governments in Paine's opinion?
(a) History.
(b) Control.
(c) Authority.
(d) Legitimacy.

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

15. What idea did Burke's views lead to, according to Paine in the Miscellaneous Chapter?
(a) Government is governed by too many principles.
(b) Government cannot be governed by too little principles.
(c) Government is governed by no principles.
(d) Government cannot be governed by too many principles.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which articles of Observations on the Declarations of Rights outlined the principles on which the laws of France should be built?

2. In the Conclusion of Part One, how did Paine label the new era that was producing successful Republics?

3. What did Paine think could be abolished by a European Congress?

4. As Paine wrote, what kind of impact would the French Revolution have?

5. According to Paine, where did Burke derive his arguments from?

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