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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which right did the French people have that Paine cited as something the English people did not have?
2. Why did Paine choose to write a Miscellaneous Chapter of miscellaneous thoughts?
3. What did Articles IV, V and VI do in Observations on the Declarations of Rights?
4. Which one of the following was a type of preface that Rights of Man included?
5. Why did Paine think that Burke refused to compare the French and British Constitutions?
Short Essay Questions
1. What caused Thomas Paine to write Rights of Man?
2. What was the main point in the first preface for Rights of Man?
3. Which positive examples of the French Constitution did Paine include in Rights of Man?
4. Which rights did Paine include in the third preface for Rights of Man?
5. What was the English government's perception of the French Revolution and the French government?
6. How did Paine dispute Burke's opinion of the hereditary monarchy in the Miscellaneous Chapter?
7. How did natural rights lead to civil rights in a society?
8. What rights did Dr. Price think the people of England had, and how did Burke disagree?
9. How did Paine indicate his intent for writing the Rights of Man in the second preface?
10. Which inefficiencies of the English government did Paine discuss in the Miscellaneous Chapter?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
A main position that Paine took in Of Society and Civilization was that a society could function with little or no government.
1) Describe early America before the American Revolution and the reasons why it maintained itself without a formal government.
2) Explain the characteristics that Paine outlined for how a country could be maintained by society without government.
3) Analyze Paine's opinions of government's role in society and whether he thought there could be a government without society.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss Dr. Price, the societies mentioned with him in Rights of Man, the rights that he outlined, Burke's objection of his positions and Paine's defense of them.
Essay Topic 3
At the end of Ways and Means of Improving the Conditions of Europe, Paine provided his suggestions for solving some of England's most significant problems.
1) Describe the exhaustion of the elderly in the workhouse of Europe and Paine's suggestions for improving the conditions for the them.
2) Explain why Paine was concerned about the children of England and the programs he recommended to give them moral instruction and direction.
3) Analyze Paine's budgetary advice for England and how it was designed to solve the problems of the poor, the elderly and the children.
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