1. True. According the text, he worked as a tax collector in England, but he was fired.
2. False. He didn’t wrote de Declaration of Independence. He wrote a small but powerful book that had great impact in the people who was going to read it, six month later.
3. True. A letter of Introduction from Franklin helped him to get this job.
4. False. He wrote Common Sense, but on the contrary, it was an inmediate success, so too much people read it.
5. True. In his pamphlet hi encoureged americans to a complete break with England.
6. False. England had a Monarchy and he suggested americans that a Republic would be a better choice.
7. Thomas Paine had chosen Common Sense as the title for his pamphlet because he had an ordinary and simple life, full of failures. He wrote a book about his thoughts speaking as open and as clear as he could. He was a simple man, but in some way he was self confident and practical, too.
8. I could name it: “Great thougths of a common man”. Because over all conclusions the most important thing about this man was his common sense and good manners in life.
