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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. Which articles of Observations on the Declarations of Rights outlined the principles on which the laws of France should be built?
(a) The seventh through the eleventh.
(b) The eighth through the tenth.
(c) The eighth through the eleventh.
(d) The seventh through the tenth.

2. How did Paine describe human authority while correcting Burke's misrepresentation of the Declaration of the Rights of Man?
(a) Irrelevant.
(b) Secondary.
(c) Derivative.
(d) Non-existent.

3. As Paine wrote in Rights of Man, what must each generation set for themselves to avoid being servants of the past?
(a) Conditions.
(b) Taxes.
(c) Rights.
(d) Limits.

4. Since the people are sovereign, what were the only type of actions that Paine thought should be stopped by the law?
(a) Actions that hurt society.
(b) Actions that reduce the government.
(c) Actions that hurt society or the government.
(d) Actions that remove the government's authority.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which one of the Founding Fathers was intended to receive Marquis de la Fayette's declaration of rights?

2. In Paine's opinion, what did Burke's position on England's past laws justify?

3. How did Paine think the English people viewed the French Revolution?

4. Which plot was uncovered with the storming of the Bastille?

5. As mentioned in the Miscellaneous Chapter, when did the people of England overthrow the monarch?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What was the main point in the first preface for Rights of Man?

5. According to the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens, what was the purpose of laws?

6. How did Paine dispute Burke's opinion of the hereditary monarchy in the Miscellaneous Chapter?

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

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

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

10. How did Paine clarify the target of the French people during the Revolution?

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