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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How did Paine describe the idea of bureaucrats managing trade properly?
(a) Optimistic.
(b) Biased.
(c) Delusional.
(d) Irrational.

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

4. What taxes did Paine think should be abolished in the British government?
(a) Houses and poor-rates, but not windows.
(b) Poor-rates, but not houses or windows.
(c) Houses, windows, and poor-rates.
(d) Windows and poor-rates, but not houses.

5. What did the Declaration of Independence lead to for the representative government that prevailed?
(a) A sense of cohesiveness.
(b) A sense of completion.
(c) A sense of goodness.
(d) A sense of power.

6. When in 1174 did Congress meet to offer recommendations about the new Constitution?
(a) September.
(b) February.
(c) November.
(d) August.

7. How did the Peers become rich?
(a) Inheritance.
(b) Illegal trade.
(c) Unfair laws.
(d) Landed property.

8. What three things did Paine believe would progress as a result of future Revolutions?
(a) Reason, universal peace, and commerce.
(b) Universal war, commerce, and governmental politics.
(c) Reason, commerce, and universal war.
(d) Reason, universal peace, and governmental politics.

9. As explained by Paine in Of Constitutions, what made the constitutions binding?
(a) Nations put their success as a priority.
(b) Nations had no interest in being wrong.
(c) Nations put their coexistence as a priority.
(d) Nations had no interest in being misled.

10. Compared to previous Revolutions, what did Paine think future Revolutions would be like?
(a) Longer.
(b) Shorter.
(c) More expensive.
(d) Less expensive.

11. Which one of the following was not included in Paine's description of how America was prospering in Of Society and Civilization?
(a) The poor were not oppressed.
(b) The industry was extensive.
(c) The taxes were low.
(d) The rich were not privileged.

12. How did Paine react to Burke's refusal to respond to Part One of Rights of Man?
(a) He found it frustrating.
(b) He found it inexusable.
(c) He found it cowardly.
(d) He found it surprising.

13. Which effect did Paine think domestic trade had on foreign trade?
(a) Neither of them were connected.
(b) If one was good, the other could not be.
(c) If one was good, the other was too.
(d) If one was the good, the other was not necessarily good too.

14. What did Paine think was the origin of the delegated power of government?
(a) Elections.
(b) Amendments.
(c) Treaties.
(d) Constitution.

15. After explaining why he thought corporations should be abolished, what did Paine say companies should be free to do?
(a) Merge with corporations.
(b) Compete with each other.
(c) Compete with corporations.
(d) Merge with each other.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What type of ignorance did Paine think the monarchy acted in when using its arbitrary power?

3. How did Paine think the national debt should be paid off in Ways and Means of Improving the Conditions of Europe?

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

5. What did Paine think the English's reliance on law by precedence led to?

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