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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Ways and Means of Improving the Conditions of Europe, Interspersed with Miscellaneous Observations.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In proportion to the poor, what kind of taxes did Paine think the Peers should have paid?
(a) The same.
(b) Slightly higher.
(c) Much higher.
(d) Lower.

2. How many prefaces did the first part of Rights of Man have?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) Five.

3. What analogy did Paine draw between the American Revolution and the French Revolution in Rights of Man?
(a) They both lasted for the same amount of time.
(b) They happened at the same time.
(c) They were both fought for similar reasons.
(d) They happened in the same place.

4. What style was Part One of Rights of Man written in by Paine?
(a) Educational.
(b) Traditional.
(c) Provoking.
(d) Popular.

5. Based on the information in Ways and Means of Improving the Conditions of Europe, what should be the aim of the new governments of Europe?
(a) Specific happiness.
(b) General happiness.
(c) General laws.
(d) Specific laws.

Short Answer Questions

1. Using history to support his opinion, what did Paine find unsurprising about how governments began?

2. In concluding Of the Old and New Systems of Government, what did Paine state was the basis for free governments?

3. Which Pennsylvania town did Paine refer to in Of Constitutions as having its own committee?

4. According to Paine in Of the Old and New Systems of Government, what was the American Presidency originally built on?

5. What did Paine discuss about the French government at the end of Rights of Man?

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