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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Age of Reason.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which years of the American Revolution did America have no government?
(a) The first three.
(b) The first two.
(c) The last three.
(d) The last two.

2. What is the famous quote by Paine that starts the section, The Crisis?
(a) These are the men whose soul's need to be tested.
(b) These are the times that try men's souls.
(c) These are the times that men's souls are tested.
(d) These are the men whose soul's have been tried.

3. What city did the British incorrectly assume was the center of America when they attacked it?
(a) New York.
(b) Baltimore.
(c) Dallas.
(d) Philadelphia.

4. How does Burke describe Louis XVI?
(a) A fearful monarch.
(b) A resourceful monarch.
(c) A beaten monarch.
(d) A mild monarch.

5. Why do Englishmen defend their king?
(a) Out of reason, rather than national pride.
(b) Out of neither reason nor national pride.
(c) Out of national pride, rather than reason.
(d) Out of both reason and national pride.

Short Answer Questions

1. What war does Paine believe might have been the inspiration for a Christian tale about the Almighty?

2. What did the lack of monarchy result in for Britain before the kings?

3. When did Edmund Burke attack the French Revolution in a book?

4. How many years of the Revolution does Paine discuss in a letter to the Inhabitants of America?

5. What does Paine hope the English people will realize from Burke's pamphlet?

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