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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Rights of Man, Part I.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Paine use as a miserable example of the Constitution that America is trying to adopt?
(a) Germany.
(b) Holland.
(c) Switzerland.
(d) Belgium.

2. According to Paine, what is the difference between society and government?
(a) Right versus wrong.
(b) North versus South.
(c) Positivism versus negativism.
(d) East versus West.

3. What is the English government's position on the French Revolution?
(a) The English government does not support it.
(b) Almost all of the English government supports it.
(c) Half of the English government supports it.
(d) The English government supports it.

4. What does a strong government assure against?
(a) Civil war and poverty.
(b) Civil war, but not poverty.
(c) Civil war, poverty, and treason.
(d) Poverty, but not civil war or treason.

5. In his letter to Howe, what comparison does Paine make about arguing with a man who has no use for authority?
(a) Giving medicine to the dead.
(b) Talking to a wall.
(c) Talking to the dead.
(d) Reasoning with a wall.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many questions does Paine address in his final letter to the people of England?

2. What replaced hopelessness during a long battle, as Paine recounts?

3. According to Paine, whose role in the French Revolution should not be diminished?

4. Why do Englishmen defend their king?

5. As Paine states in The Crisis, what word should never replace the word "Christian"?

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