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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. Using his own life experiences as proof of his expertise, what did Paine think the young people of Europe needed?
(a) Lessons in reality.
(b) More examples to look to.
(c) Moral instruction.
(d) Rules and consequences.

2. What did Paine say about the elderly in the workhouse in Ways and Means of Improving the Conditions of Europe?
(a) They were exhausted.
(b) They were underpaid.
(c) They were unemployed.
(d) They were energized.

3. How many houses of Congress were part of the Constitution that was ratified at the constitutional convention?
(a) One.
(b) Two.
(c) None.
(d) Three.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. As mentioned in Ways and Means of Improving the Conditions of Europe, what year did the Glorious Revolution take place?

3. How many counties did Pennsylvania initially have before the American Constitution was formed?

4. How did Paine think the national debt should be paid off in Ways and Means of Improving the Conditions of Europe?

5. What type of formal government did the frontier areas of America have before the American Revolution?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Paine discuss social order in Chapter 1?

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 particular problem in London did Paine address in Ways and Means of Improving the Conditions of Europe?

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

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

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

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

9. How much time had passed between Part One and Part Two of Rights of Man, and how did Burke respond to Part One?

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

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