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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the Articles of Confederation passed?
(a) 1783.
(b) 1782.
(c) 1780.
(d) 1781.

2. How much of Burke's new work did Paine intend to discuss in Part Two of Rights of Man?
(a) A lot.
(b) An average amount.
(c) Very little.
(d) None.

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

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

5. How did the Peers become rich?
(a) Unfair laws.
(b) Landed property.
(c) Inheritance.
(d) Illegal trade.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. As Paine wrote in Part Two of Rights of Man, what did the American Revolution put into practice for the first time?

3. How many nations did Paine believe had the right to establish constitutions?

4. How much power did Paine think the Articles of Confederation gave the states?

5. As Paine explained in Of Society and Civilization, what has nature given man to ensure the cooperation needed to survive?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Paine describe the elderly and the children in Europe?

2. How was the Constitution passed and what concerns did people have about it at the time?

3. What did Paine think should be done about the Peers in England?

4. As discussed in Ways and Means of Improving the Conditions of Europe, what effect would a possible alliance with France have for England?

5. How and why were the committees of America formed before the Declaration of Independence?

6. What was Paine's opinion of corporate charters?

7. What was the difference in the opinions of Sieyes and Burke and the monarchies?

8. What was Paine's definition of Constitution in Of Constitutions?

9. What description of early America did Paine provide in order to prove how a society could maintain itself without government?

10. How did Paine describe Republicanism as a response to Burke at the end of Chapter 3?

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