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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. What word did Paine use to describe the English Constitution in Of Constitutions?
(a) Repetitive.
(b) Specific.
(c) Vague.
(d) Implicit.

2. As Paine wrote, what kind of impact would the French Revolution have?
(a) Only an impact on other countries.
(b) Neither an impact on France nor other countries.
(c) An impact on France and other countries.
(d) Only an impact on France.

3. What did Paine say about the elderly in the workhouse in Ways and Means of Improving the Conditions of Europe?
(a) They were unemployed.
(b) They were energized.
(c) They were exhausted.
(d) They were underpaid.

4. Who did Paine emphasize was the rightful owner of the Constitution?
(a) The people.
(b) The government.
(c) Neither the people nor the government.
(d) The people and the government.

5. Besides English, which other language was Rights of Man published in?
(a) French.
(b) Spanish.
(c) Italian.
(d) German.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Paine react to Burke's refusal to respond to Part One of Rights of Man?

2. What were the new principles of government that Paine wrote about in Of the Old and New Systems of Government?

3. Which other war had Burke previously supported?

4. What did the Declaration of Independence lead to for the representative government that prevailed?

5. How did Paine summarize Burke's views in the Miscellaneous Chapter?

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