Thomas Paine's Common Sense

question 32

Multiple Choice

Thomas Paine's Common Sense

• A) argued that the British governmental system was perfectly good but that current officials had corrupted it.
• B) made highly original arguments in favor of independence.
• C) sold well among the elite, who in turn were able to convey its ideas to the lower classes.
• D) argued that America would become the home of freedom and "an asylum for mankind."
• E) led to his arrest on charges of treason, but he saved himself by writing another pamphlet taking the opposite position.

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