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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. What impressed Paine about the National Assembly in Rights of Man?
(a) Their objectivity.
(b) Their ability to prevent revolt.
(c) Their patience.
(d) Their ability to restrain revolt.

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

3. In order to clarify an important aspect of the French Revolution, what did Paine say was the intention of the French people?
(a) To rebel against principles that empowered tyrants, not men themselves.
(b) To rebel against both the principles that empowered tyrants and men themselves.
(c) To rebel against neither the principles that empowered tyrants nor the men themselves.
(d) To rebel against the men themselves, not the principles that empowered tyrants.

4. 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) Reflections on the Revolution in France.
(c) Thoughts on French Affairs.
(d) Letters on a Regicide Peace.

5. Referencing the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Of Citizens, by the National Assembly of France, what did Paine state was the purpose of government?
(a) To protect and promote natural, inalienable human rights.
(b) To provide funds for those that are lacking.
(c) To decide which rights are natural and inalienable.
(d) To ensure that no citizen earns more than a decided amount.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What mood was the beginning of the second Preface of Rights of Man written by Paine?

3. What idea did Burke's views lead to, according to Paine in the Miscellaneous Chapter?

4. In order to prove the senselessness of Burke's position on the monarchy, what did Paine maintain could not be done to individual rights?

5. Which right did the French people have that Paine cited as something the English people did not have?

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 Paine dispute Burke's opinion of the hereditary monarchy in the Miscellaneous Chapter?

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

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

5. Why did Paine write the Miscellaneous Chapter?

6. How did natural rights lead to civil rights in a society?

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

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

9. What caused Thomas Paine to write Rights of Man?

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

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