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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. Which right did the French people have that Paine cited as something the English people did not have?
(a) Freedom of speech.
(b) Right to bear arms.
(c) Freedom of the press.
(d) Right to a fair trial.

2. 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) Aggressively.
(b) Frequently.
(c) Repeatedly.
(d) Carefully.

3. Which alliance did Paine suggest should take place in Ways and Means of Improving the Conditions of Europe?
(a) Italy, England, and France.
(b) America, Italy, and France.
(c) America, England, and France.
(d) America, Italy, and England.

4. What style was Part One of Rights of Man written in by Paine?
(a) Popular.
(b) Educational.
(c) Provoking.
(d) Traditional.

5. Which rights did Paine include as ones that the government should guarantee from the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Of Citizens, by the National Assembly of France?
(a) Liberty, property, security, wages and resistance.
(b) Liberty, property, wages and security.
(c) Liberty, property, security and resistance.
(d) Liberty, security, religion and resistance.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Paine indicate the corporate charters destroy rights in Ways and Means of Improving the Conditions of Europe?

2. In Paine's opinion, what did Burke's position on England's past laws justify?

3. What analogy did Paine draw between the American Revolution and the French Revolution in Rights of Man?

4. Which one of the Founding Fathers was intended to receive Marquis de la Fayette's declaration of rights?

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

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