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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. According to the French Constitution that Paine referred to, how often must the National Assembly be elected?
(a) Every four years.
(b) Every two years.
(c) Every three years.
(d) Every year.

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

3. Besides English, which other language was Rights of Man published in?
(a) German.
(b) Italian.
(c) Spanish.
(d) French.

4. How did Paine describe reasoning with the states in the Preface?
(a) Pointless.
(b) Unacceptable.
(c) Confusing.
(d) Commendable.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Because of the American and French Revolutions, what was being undermined about the old governments in Paine's opinion?

2. In Rights of Man, what did Paine say society granted men?

3. What happened to responsibility when a country attempted to blend both influences that Paine referenced in the Conclusion of Part One?

4. According to Paine in the Preface, who was his audience for Rights of Man?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the essence of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens?

2. What were some of Paine's problems with Burke's views of governmental wisdom?

3. How did Paine name the new era that was taking place and the future of the Revolutions at the end of Part One's Conclusion?

4. Why did Paine write the Miscellaneous Chapter?

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

6. Which positive examples of the French Constitution did Paine include in Rights of Man?

7. How did Paine indicate his intent for writing the Rights of Man in the second preface?

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

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

10. How did the second preface of Rights of Man begin?

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