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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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, property, security and resistance.
(b) Liberty, property, wages and security.
(c) Liberty, property, security, wages and resistance.
(d) Liberty, security, religion and resistance.

2. How many articles did Paine discuss in Observations on the Declarations of Rights?
(a) Ten.
(b) Over twelve.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Eight.

3. How did Paine depict his feelings in the Preface about the way readers of his work were being punished in some countries?
(a) Confused.
(b) Remorseful.
(c) Resentful.
(d) Appauled.

4. What did Paine say in the Preface that the people would have to see in order for Liberty to prevail?
(a) Truth.
(b) Victory.
(c) Reason.
(d) Possibility.

5. What impressed Paine about the National Assembly in Rights of Man?
(a) Their ability to restrain revolt.
(b) Their objectivity.
(c) Their ability to prevent revolt.
(d) Their patience.

6. Which term that Burke used to label the French people did Paine consider to be an insult?
(a) Pack.
(b) Flock.
(c) Riot.
(d) Mob.

7. Based on the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Of Citizens, by the National Assembly of France, whose will did the law express?
(a) The previous officials.
(b) The community.
(c) Other governments.
(d) The government.

8. In order to prove the senselessness of Burke's position on the monarchy, what did Paine maintain could not be done to individual rights?
(a) They could not be borrowed or annihilated.
(b) They could not be borrowed, transferred or annihilated.
(c) They could not be borrowed or transferred.
(d) They could not be transferred or annihilated.

9. Which right did the French people have that Paine cited as something the English people did not have?
(a) Freedom of the press.
(b) Freedom of speech.
(c) Right to a fair trial.
(d) Right to bear arms.

10. Instead of rights, what did Paine say was included in Burke's arguments?
(a) Clauses.
(b) Hypothesis.
(c) Surveys.
(d) Misinformation.

11. Since the people are sovereign, what were the only type of actions that Paine thought should be stopped by the law?
(a) Actions that reduce the government.
(b) Actions that hurt society or the government.
(c) Actions that hurt society.
(d) Actions that remove the government's authority.

12. Which French causes did Paine think were also representative of the entire world?
(a) Equality and commerce.
(b) Liberty and equality.
(c) Liberty and freedom of religion.
(d) Liberty, equality, and commerce.

13. What analogy did Paine draw between the American Revolution and the French Revolution in Rights of Man?
(a) They were both fought for similar reasons.
(b) They happened at the same time.
(c) They both lasted for the same amount of time.
(d) They happened in the same place.

14. After pointing out the weaknesses of Burke's position, what did Paine indicate about Burke's principle of past English laws?
(a) It diminished itself.
(b) It defeated itself.
(c) It outsmarted itself.
(d) It contradicted itself.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Paine say was the cause of the removal of aristocratic title for the French people?

2. Which one of the Founding Fathers was intended to receive Marquis de la Fayette's declaration of rights?

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

4. Because of the American and French Revolutions, what was being undermined about the old governments in Paine's opinion?

5. How did Paine describe reasoning with the states in the Preface?

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