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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. According to the French Constitution that Paine referred to, how often must the National Assembly be elected?
(a) Every year.
(b) Every four years.
(c) Every two years.
(d) Every three years.

2. What did Articles IV, V and VI do in Observations on the Declarations of Rights?
(a) Evaluate the first three articles.
(b) Extend the first three articles.
(c) Shorten the first three articles.
(d) Replace the first three articles.

3. In concluding Of the Old and New Systems of Government, what did Paine state was the basis for free governments?
(a) Law, not persons.
(b) Persons, not law.
(c) Neither law nor persons.
(d) Law and persons.

4. In Paine's opinion, when did a society need government even less?
(a) When it had good moral character.
(b) When it had an established trade agreement.
(c) When it had vast resources.
(d) When it had an effective military.

5. What was the compact between the people of the United States that Paine mentioned in Of Constitutions?
(a) To create and sustain a government.
(b) To create and sustain a philosophy.
(c) To develop a system based on laws.
(d) To develop a system based on taxes.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did Paine describe the monarchical government that the American Constitution avoided in Of Constitutions?

3. How did Paine describe reasoning with the states in the Preface?

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

5. What distinction did Paine make in the Preface?

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