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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which Pennsylvania town did Paine refer to in Of Constitutions as having its own committee?
(a) Philadelphia.
(b) Allentown.
(c) Pittsburgh.
(d) York.

3. In proportion to the poor, what kind of taxes did Paine think the Peers should have paid?
(a) Much higher.
(b) The same.
(c) Lower.
(d) Slightly higher.

4. What was Paine's opinion of Burke's new work when he wrote Part Two of Rights of Man?
(a) He thought it was worse than before.
(b) He did not read it.
(c) He thought is was a slight improvement.
(d) He did not think much of it.

5. According to Paine in Of Constitutions, how many representative bodies should a government have?
(a) Four.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) One.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Paine urge the people of Europe to believe in?

2. Which words did Paine use to depict the costs of the monarchy in Ways and Means of Improving the Conditions of Europe?

3. When was the Articles of Confederation passed?

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

5. What type of trade did Paine think would destroy war in Ways and Means of Improving the Conditions of Europe?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Paine support commerce and universal trade in Ways and Means of Improving the Conditions of Europe?

2. How was the Constitution passed and what concerns did people have about it at the time?

3. Based on the information provided in Of Constitutions, how did the American Constitution avoid the same mistakes made by the monarchical governments?

4. What was Paine's objection to the Articles of Confederation?

5. How did Paine describe Republicanism as a response to Burke at the end of Chapter 3?

6. What was Paine's opinion of George Washington?

7. What was Paine's plan for paying off the national debt in Ways and Means of Improving the Conditions of Europe?

8. As discussed in Ways and Means of Improving the Conditions of Europe, what effect would a possible alliance with France have for England?

9. Why did Paine think that natural rights rejected hereditary government?

10. How did Paine end Rights of Man with the optimism of the coming Revolutions and Republics?

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