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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many nations did Paine believe had the right to establish constitutions?
(a) Several of them.
(b) All of them.
(c) Most of them.
(d) Only a few of them.

2. How did Paine indicate the corporate charters destroy rights in Ways and Means of Improving the Conditions of Europe?
(a) By encouraging people to dismiss new political ideas.
(b) By preventing people from exercising political power.
(c) By preventing people from exercising financial power.
(d) By encouraging people to dismiss new financial ideas.

3. What type of fighting did Paine think corporate charters produced where they existed?
(a) Limited.
(b) Endless.
(c) Lengthy.
(d) Short.

4. How many counties did Pennsylvania initially have before the American Constitution was formed?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Eight.
(c) Fourteen.
(d) Ten.

5. How did Paine refer to tax revenue in the European governments?
(a) None of it was being wasted.
(b) Very little of it was being wasted.
(c) Not enough of it was being generated.
(d) So much of it was being wasted.

6. Which one of the following was not included in Paine's description of how America was prospering in Of Society and Civilization?
(a) The rich were not privileged.
(b) The poor were not oppressed.
(c) The taxes were low.
(d) The industry was extensive.

7. What type of taxes did the Peers pay?
(a) Low.
(b) Average.
(c) None.
(d) High.

8. How did Paine describe America in Part Two of Rights of Man?
(a) A country of rapid production.
(b) A country of limitless production.
(c) A country of rapid progress.
(d) A country of limitless progress.

9. How did Paine describe republicanism in Of the Old and New Systems of Government?
(a) It reinforces the notion of loyalty.
(b) It promotes the common thinking.
(c) It promotes the common good.
(d) It reinforces the notion of justice.

10. After explaining why he thought corporations should be abolished, what did Paine say companies should be free to do?
(a) Merge with each other.
(b) Compete with each other.
(c) Compete with corporations.
(d) Merge with corporations.

11. What word did Paine use to describe the decisions of juries in Part Two of Rights of Man?
(a) Ambiguous.
(b) Controversial.
(c) Confusing.
(d) Arbitrary.

12. What did Paine say was crucial to a good constitution at the end of Of Constitutions?
(a) The power to enforce it.
(b) The power to understand it.
(c) The power to believe in it.
(d) The power to revise it.

13. What type of ignorance did Paine think the monarchy acted in when using its arbitrary power?
(a) Selective.
(b) Random.
(c) Temporary.
(d) Superstitious.

14. Besides the mutual dependence of man, what did Paine think would drive social order forward?
(a) Reciprocal laws.
(b) Varied interests.
(c) Varied laws.
(d) Reciprocal interests.

15. Announcing the arrival of representative government at the end of Ways and Means of Improving the Conditions of Europe, how did Paine advise that future revolution should be contemplated?
(a) Repeatedly.
(b) Aggressively.
(c) Carefully.
(d) Frequently.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Paine describe the idea of bureaucrats managing trade properly?

2. According to Paine in Of Constitutions, how many representative bodies should a government have?

3. What did Paine think were society's greatest laws?

4. 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?

5. Considering the point that Paine made in Of Constitutions, what were governments designed to promote under a constitution?

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