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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Of Constitutions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Challenging Burke's view that the government had knowledge, what did Paine insist that Burke could not prove?
(a) That the government was based on authority.
(b) That the government never had authority.
(c) That the government was never based on authority.
(d) That the government ever had authority.

2. What was it about George Washington, the first American President, that Paine thought put all of the kings to shame?
(a) His loyalty.
(b) His courage.
(c) His independence.
(d) His character.

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 both the principles that empowered tyrants and men themselves.
(b) To rebel against the men themselves, not the principles that empowered tyrants.
(c) To rebel against principles that empowered tyrants, not men themselves.
(d) To rebel against neither the principles that empowered tyrants nor the men themselves.

4. 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?
(a) Liberty, security, religion and resistance.
(b) Liberty, property, security, wages and resistance.
(c) Liberty, property, security and resistance.
(d) Liberty, property, wages and security.

5. What crucial point did Paine make about power in the Miscellaneous Chapter?
(a) Power cannot be corrupt.
(b) Power cannot be misguided.
(c) Power cannot be inherited.
(d) Power cannot be given.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which aspect of the government's presumed knowledge could not be accounted for by Burke, according to the listing of his view's problems in the Miscellaneous Chapter?

3. What did the Declaration of Independence lead to for the representative government that prevailed?

4. Which word did Paine use to describe the monarchy in the Miscellaneous Chapter?

5. Which plot was uncovered with the storming of the Bastille?

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