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

2. What is a good description of the second part of Rights of Man?
(a) Autobiographical.
(b) Biographical.
(c) Fictional.
(d) Philosophical.

3. In the Conclusion of Part One, how did Paine label the new era that was producing successful Republics?
(a) The Rebellious Era.
(b) The Age of Revolutions.
(c) The Age of Rebellions.
(d) The Revolutionary Era.

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

5. As Paine wrote, what kind of impact would the French Revolution have?
(a) Only an impact on France.
(b) An impact on France and other countries.
(c) Neither an impact on France nor other countries.
(d) Only an impact on other countries.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many prefaces did the first part of Rights of Man have?

2. In order to clarify an important aspect of the French Revolution, what did Paine say was the intention of the French people?

3. Based on Paine's assessment, how were the people's opinion of government changing as a result of the American and French Revolutions?

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

5. Besides defending themselves, what else did Paine say the people were defending by storming the Bastille?

Short Essay Questions

1. What criticism of Burke did Paine include at the end of the Miscellaneous Chapter?

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

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

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

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

6. Why was Paine qualified to write about the French's situation accurately?

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

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

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

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

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