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

2. Using history to support his opinion, what did Paine find unsurprising about how governments began?
(a) They began in ignorance.
(b) They began in chaos.
(c) They began as murderers.
(d) They began as robbers.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Paine refer to tax revenue in the European governments?

2. How did Paine react to Burke's refusal to respond to Part One of Rights of Man?

3. When was the Articles of Confederation passed?

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

5. Who did Paine contend that a monarchy was maintained to amuse?

Short Essay Questions

1. What description of early America did Paine provide in order to prove how a society could maintain itself without government?

2. What was Paine's definition of Constitution in Of Constitutions?

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

4. Which countries did Paine think should have a constitution and what would make it work for them?

5. What was the difference in the opinions of Sieyes and Burke and the monarchies?

6. Which taxes and regulations did Paine think should be reduced or abolished in England?

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

8. How did Paine compare the American Constitution with the constitution of England in Of Constitutions?

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

10. What was the purpose of Congress' original meetings in 1774 and 1775, and what effect did the Declaration of Independence have on America?

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