Questions 11-20. Read the following passage from Thomas Paine’s The Crisis (1776) carefully before you choose your answers. When Paine begins his speech with the phrase “These are the times that try men’s souls,” he is suggesting that —
Select one:
a. men, not women, will bear the brunt of the action to come
b. colonists are living in a period that will force them to show their true characters
c. it is likely that a period of boredom and inertia awaits the colonists
d. those who fight in the revolution will be saved; others will be d am ne d
