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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part the Second, Combining Principle of Practice, Preface and Introduction, Chapter 1, Of Society and Civilization, Chapter 2, Of the Origin of the Present Old Governments, Chapter 3, Of the Old and New Systems of Government.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Paine describe republicanism in Of the Old and New Systems of Government?
(a) It reinforces the notion of loyalty.
(b) It reinforces the notion of justice.
(c) It promotes the common thinking.
(d) It promotes the common good.

2. What distinction did Paine make in the Preface?
(a) Between the state and the religion.
(b) Between the state and the nation.
(c) Between the state, the nation and the government.
(d) Between the nation and the government.

3. In Rights of Man, what did Paine say society granted men?
(a) A lot.
(b) Very little.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Everything.

4. What mood was the beginning of the second Preface of Rights of Man written by Paine?
(a) Exhausted.
(b) Angry.
(c) Excited.
(d) Defensive.

5. What did Paine discuss about the French government at the end of Rights of Man?
(a) How it would have been structured without the Revolution.
(b) How it was structured after the Revolution.
(c) How its structure remained intact after the Revolution.
(d) How it was structured before the Revolution.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long after the first part of Rights of Man was Part Two published?

2. How did Paine think the English people viewed the French Revolution?

3. Which one of the following was a type of preface that Rights of Man included?

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

5. What is a good description of the second part of Rights of Man?

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