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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Since the people are sovereign, what were the only type of actions that Paine thought should be stopped by the law?

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

3. How did Paine depict his feelings in the Preface about the way readers of his work were being punished in some countries?

4. What did Paine think could be abolished by a European Congress?

5. Which rights did Paine include as ones that the government should guarantee from the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Of Citizens, by the National Assembly of France?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why did Paine write the Miscellaneous Chapter?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A main position that Paine took in Of Society and Civilization was that a society could function with little or no government.

1) Describe early America before the American Revolution and the reasons why it maintained itself without a formal government.

2) Explain the characteristics that Paine outlined for how a country could be maintained by society without government.

3) Analyze Paine's opinions of government's role in society and whether he thought there could be a government without society.

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the backgrounds of Paine and Burke, including an analysis of the role that the past had in their opinions of the American Revolution and the French Revolution, and Paine's surprise about Burke's criticism.

Essay Topic 3

Part Two of Rights of Man began with an Introduction about America's success and the reasons behind it.

1) Describe the aspects of America that Paine thought helped them succeed in forming a new government.

2) Explain why Paine expressed that America was the only place that could have tried a new form of government at that time.

3) Analyze the success of America as it is highlighted by Paine in the Introduction of Part Two of Rights of Man.

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