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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Paine think the English people viewed the French Revolution?
(a) They supported only certain aspects of it.
(b) He did not comment on their view.
(c) They supported it.
(d) They did not support it.

2. 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?
(a) 1770.
(b) 1750.
(c) 1730.
(d) 1780.

3. Based on Paine's assessment, how were the people's opinion of government changing as a result of the American and French Revolutions?
(a) Gradually.
(b) Irreversibly.
(c) Not quickly enough.
(d) Quickly.

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

5. Which word did Paine use to describe the monarchy in the Miscellaneous Chapter?
(a) Fraud.
(b) Fallacy.
(c) Scam.
(d) Illusion.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Paine describe the Declaration of Rights in Observations on the Declarations of Rights?

2. Challenging Burke's view that the government had knowledge, what did Paine insist that Burke could not prove?

3. What was the first part of Rights of Man written to accomplish?

4. In the Preface of Rights of Man, who did Paine think should go directly to the people?

5. What did Paine think Burke had drastically underestimated by calling the French Revolution a violent revolt?

Short Essay Questions

1. What drawbacks to the English government did Paine write about while covering the rights that the French people had?

2. How did the English people differ with the English government about the French Revolution?

3. What rights did Dr. Price think the people of England had, and how did Burke disagree?

4. What was another reason that Paine gave for writing Rights of Man in the third preface?

5. Which criticism did Paine make about Burke's view of the French Constitution at the end of Rights of Man?

6. Which rights did Paine include in the third preface for Rights of Man?

7. What explanation did Paine given in Rights of Man about natural rights and human authority?

8. Which inefficiencies of the English government did Paine discuss in the Miscellaneous Chapter?

9. What was the difference of opinion that Paine and Burke had about the Bastille?

10. What were the differences in the three forms of government authority that Paine mentioned in Rights of Man?

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