Rights of Man Test | Final Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 138 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Rights of Man Test | Final Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 138 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. How did Paine describe the society in small domains where government was necessary?

2. Which part of the English Constitution did Paine cite as a significant achievement?

3. What type of taxes did the Peers pay?

4. How did Paine refer to tax revenue in the European governments?

5. What did Paine urge the people of Europe to believe in?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Paine's plan for paying off the national debt in Ways and Means of Improving the Conditions of Europe?

2. How much time had passed between Part One and Part Two of Rights of Man, and how did Burke respond to Part One?

3. How and why were the committees of America formed before the Declaration of Independence?

4. Why did Paine think that natural rights rejected hereditary government?

5. How did Paine discuss social order in Chapter 1?

6. What was the difference in the opinions of Sieyes and Burke and the monarchies?

7. How did Paine end Rights of Man with the optimism of the coming Revolutions and Republics?

8. Which changes would Paine make to the revenue distribution system of the monarchy?

9. What was Paine's objection to the Articles of Confederation?

10. What did Paine write about the origins of government in Chapter 2?

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

Both Paine and Burke looked at the storming of the Bastille in very different ways.

1) Describe why Burke might have decided to ignore the Bastille and how he briefly referred to it.

2) Explain Paine's opinion of the Bastille and why he considered it to be an important historical event.

3) Analyze whose opinion of the Bastille you think seems the most logical.

Essay Topic 3

Explain three examples of mistakes that Burke made in his description of the French Revolution, Paine's correction of the mistakes, and what their inaccuracy showed about Burke's opinions.

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