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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 political power.
(b) By preventing people from exercising financial power.
(c) By encouraging people to dismiss new financial ideas.
(d) By encouraging people to dismiss new political ideas.

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

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

4. Why did Paine think the Articles of Confederation was ineffective?
(a) It was not detailed enough.
(b) It was not representative enough.
(c) It was too representative.
(d) It was too detailed.

5. How did Paine describe the laws protecting the aristocracy in Ways and Means of Improving the Conditions of Europe?
(a) Misleading and confusing.
(b) Brutal and confusing.
(c) Misleading and unjust.
(d) Brutal and unjust.

6. What did Paine think should happen to every bill before it was voted on in a representative style of government?
(a) It should be debated in succession.
(b) It should be read by the people.
(c) It should be challenged by the people.
(d) It should be approved by a majority.

7. Which part of the English Constitution did Paine cite as a significant achievement?
(a) Bill of Rights.
(b) Charter of Liberties.
(c) Magna Carta.
(d) Petition of Right.

8. Considering the point that Paine made in Of Constitutions, what were governments designed to promote under a constitution?
(a) The individual and collective good.
(b) Neither the individual nor the collective good.
(c) Only the individual good.
(d) Only the collective good.

9. As mentioned in Ways and Means of Improving the Conditions of Europe, what year did the Glorious Revolution take place?
(a) 1688.
(b) 1686.
(c) 1690.
(d) 1692.

10. 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 understand it.
(c) The power to believe in it.
(d) The power to enforce it.

11. How much of Burke's new work did Paine intend to discuss in Part Two of Rights of Man?
(a) None.
(b) A lot.
(c) Very little.
(d) An average amount.

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

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

14. How did Paine describe the picture of corporate towns in Ways and Means of Improving the Conditions of Europe?
(a) Decay and chaos.
(b) Chaos and oppression.
(c) Decay and oppression.
(d) Decay, chaos and oppression.

15. Based on the information in Ways and Means of Improving the Conditions of Europe, what should be the aim of the new governments of Europe?
(a) General laws.
(b) Specific happiness.
(c) General happiness.
(d) Specific laws.

Short Answer Questions

1. Building on the foundation of Part One, in what style was Part Two of Rights of Man written?

2. As mentioned by Paine in Of the Old and New Systems of Government, which type of monarchy did Abbe Sieyes prefer?

3. What did Paine think was the origin of the delegated power of government?

4. How did Paine describe republicanism in Of the Old and New Systems of Government?

5. As Paine explained in Of Society and Civilization, what has nature given man to ensure the cooperation needed to survive?

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