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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, what did the power of the Peers represent?
(a) Political corruption.
(b) Financial devastation.
(c) Political inequality.
(d) Financial ignorance.

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

3. What forms of objection were there to the Articles of Confederation?
(a) Pamphlets and publications.
(b) Pamphlets, but not publications.
(c) Neither pamphlets nor publications.
(d) Publications, but not pamphlets.

4. What did Paine say was crucial to a good constitution at the end of Of Constitutions?
(a) The power to revise it.
(b) The power to believe in it.
(c) The power to understand it.
(d) The power to enforce it.

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

6. What concern did many people in the states have about the newly ratified Constitution?
(a) It would be interpreted differently by the government.
(b) It would be interpreted literally by the government.
(c) It was too long.
(d) It was too short.

7. How long after the first part of Rights of Man was Part Two published?
(a) One month.
(b) One year.
(c) Two years.
(d) Two months.

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

9. What did Paine think were society's greatest laws?
(a) The laws of equality.
(b) The laws of reason.
(c) The laws of nature.
(d) The laws of independence.

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

11. How many nations did Paine believe had the right to establish constitutions?
(a) All of them.
(b) Only a few of them.
(c) Most of them.
(d) Several of them.

12. How much power did Paine think the Articles of Confederation gave the states?
(a) Too much.
(b) He did not comment on it.
(c) Not enough.
(d) The right amount.

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

14. Besides the mutual dependence of man, what did Paine think would drive social order forward?
(a) Reciprocal laws.
(b) Varied interests.
(c) Varied laws.
(d) Reciprocal interests.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Paine describe America in Part Two of Rights of Man?

2. As explained by Paine in Of Constitutions, what made the constitutions binding?

3. What was Paine's opinion of Burke's new work when he wrote Part Two of Rights of Man?

4. What was it about George Washington, the first American President, that Paine thought put all of the kings to shame?

5. How many houses of Congress were part of the Constitution that was ratified at the constitutional convention?

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