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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 summarize Burke's views in the Miscellaneous Chapter?
(a) Burke did not understand which rights individuals had.
(b) Burke did not understand which rights individuals did not have.
(c) Burke claimed that individuals had only select rights.
(d) Burke claimed that individuals had no rights.

2. How did Paine describe the laws protecting the aristocracy in Ways and Means of Improving the Conditions of Europe?
(a) Brutal and unjust.
(b) Misleading and unjust.
(c) Brutal and confusing.
(d) Misleading and confusing.

3. Which plot was uncovered with the storming of the Bastille?
(a) A plot to disband the military.
(b) A plot to reduce the military.
(c) A plot to steal from the parliament.
(d) A plot to abolish parliament.

4. What did Paine discuss about the French government at the end of Rights of Man?
(a) How it was structured after the Revolution.
(b) How it was structured before the Revolution.
(c) How it would have been structured without the Revolution.
(d) How its structure remained intact after the Revolution.

5. What did Burke think about England's past laws?
(a) They should only be altered every one hundred years.
(b) They could not be altered.
(c) They could be altered.
(d) They should only be altered every two hundred years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two things did Paine think were at the root of old governments in Of the Old and New Systems of Government?

2. What type of trade did Paine think would destroy war in Ways and Means of Improving the Conditions of Europe?

3. When did the burning and devastation of London take place that Paine referred to in his attempt to disprove Burke's opinion of the French people?

4. Which office were foreigners prohibited from having under the American Constitution?

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

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