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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which words did Paine use to depict the costs of the monarchy in Ways and Means of Improving the Conditions of Europe?
(a) Obscene and unqualified.
(b) Obscene, unexplained and insane.
(c) Obscene and insane.
(d) Unqualified and unexplained.

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

3. How did Paine describe America in Part Two of Rights of Man?
(a) A country of rapid production.
(b) A country of limitless progress.
(c) A country of limitless production.
(d) A country of rapid progress.

4. As Paine explained in Ways and Means of Improving the Conditions of Europe, what should the increase of commerce never be attributed to?
(a) The nation-government.
(b) The international laws.
(c) The international opinion.
(d) The nation-state.

5. When was the Articles of Confederation passed?
(a) 1782.
(b) 1783.
(c) 1780.
(d) 1781.

6. How did Paine describe the monarchical government that the American Constitution avoided in Of Constitutions?
(a) Senseless abomination.
(b) Insulting mistake.
(c) Childish embarrassment.
(d) Ridiculous injustice.

7. How did Paine describe republicanism in Of the Old and New Systems of Government?
(a) It reinforces the notion of loyalty.
(b) It promotes the common thinking.
(c) It promotes the common good.
(d) It reinforces the notion of justice.

8. How did Paine indicate the corporate charters destroy rights in Ways and Means of Improving the Conditions of Europe?
(a) By preventing people from exercising financial power.
(b) By preventing people from exercising political power.
(c) By encouraging people to dismiss new financial ideas.
(d) By encouraging people to dismiss new political ideas.

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

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

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

12. 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 confusing.
(c) Misleading and unjust.
(d) Brutal and confusing.

13. How did Paine think the national debt should be paid off in Ways and Means of Improving the Conditions of Europe?
(a) One quarter upfront and the rest in installments.
(b) All at once.
(c) Half upfront and the remainder in installments.
(d) In installments.

14. What was Burke's opinion of the Peers that Paine disagreed with in Ways and Means of Improving the Conditions of Europe?
(a) They were an example of society.
(b) They were an example of security.
(c) They were the pillar of society.
(d) They were the pillar of security.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Paine in Of the Old and New Systems of Government, what was the American Presidency originally built on?

2. In concluding Of the Old and New Systems of Government, what did Paine state was the basis for free governments?

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

4. What did Paine say about the elderly in the workhouse in Ways and Means of Improving the Conditions of Europe?

5. What type of fighting did Paine think corporate charters produced where they existed?

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