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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Of Constitutions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which one of the following is not included in the rights that Dr. Price thought the English people had?
(a) The right to frame a government for themselves.
(b) The right to claim a government funded security bond.
(c) The right to choose their own governors.
(d) The right to cashier governors for misconduct.

2. What year did the constitutional convention take place?
(a) 1784.
(b) 1786.
(c) 1785.
(d) 1787.

3. Depicting the flaw in Burke's way of thinking, what did Paine indicate was being ignored by Burke?
(a) Plots on behalf of the government.
(b) Plots against the government.
(c) Plots on behalf of other governments.
(d) Plots against other governments.

4. Besides defending themselves, what else did Paine say the people were defending by storming the Bastille?
(a) Their freedom.
(b) Their land.
(c) Their past.
(d) Their money.

5. To show the effectiveness of a government without a monarchy, how did Paine refer to the United States of America?
(a) The U.S. had the ability to reverse the effects of a monarchy.
(b) The U.S. was prospering without a monarchy.
(c) The U.S. will never resort to a monarchy.
(d) The U.S. was the only example of an overthrown monarchy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many houses of Congress were part of the Constitution that was ratified at the constitutional convention?

2. What did Paine say made actions right or wrong with Burke's flawed line of thinking?

3. Ending the Miscellaneous Chapter, what did Paine think was missing from Burke's objection to the French Revolution?

4. Based on Paine's assessment, how were the people's opinion of government changing as a result of the American and French Revolutions?

5. What was the compact between the people of the United States that Paine mentioned in Of Constitutions?

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