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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. How did Paine describe the society in small domains where government was necessary?
(a) Irrational.
(b) Incomplete.
(c) Indifferent.
(d) Incompetent.

2. Which effect did Paine think domestic trade had on foreign trade?
(a) If one was the good, the other was not necessarily good too.
(b) Neither of them were connected.
(c) If one was good, the other could not be.
(d) If one was good, the other was too.

3. What did Paine urge the people of Europe to believe in?
(a) Their understanding of civilization.
(b) Their ability to govern themselves.
(c) Their ability to organize themselves.
(d) Their understanding of laws.

4. Which words did Paine use to depict the costs of the monarchy in Ways and Means of Improving the Conditions of Europe?
(a) Obscene, unexplained and insane.
(b) Obscene and insane.
(c) Obscene and unqualified.
(d) Unqualified and unexplained.

5. What type of trade did Paine think would destroy war in Ways and Means of Improving the Conditions of Europe?
(a) Complex.
(b) Basic.
(c) Universal.
(d) National.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were Paine's thoughts about the idea of nations flourishing on commerce alone?

2. Which two functions did Paine outline for governments in Of Constitutions?

3. What were the new principles of government that Paine wrote about in Of the Old and New Systems of Government?

4. According to Paine in the Miscellaneous Chapter, what did tyranny in the English government cause?

5. How did Paine describe the Declaration of Rights in Observations on the Declarations of Rights?

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