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

2. What were the new principles of government that Paine wrote about in Of the Old and New Systems of Government?
(a) Provisional justice and legality.
(b) Delegation of power and the common interest.
(c) Delegation of power and the common good.
(d) Provisional justice and loyalty.

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

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

5. Where was the constitutional convention held?
(a) Washington.
(b) New York.
(c) Philadelphia.
(d) Jamestown.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were Paine's thoughts about the idea of nations flourishing on commerce alone?

2. What style was Part One of Rights of Man written in by Paine?

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

4. How did Paine describe the laws protecting the aristocracy in Ways and Means of Improving the Conditions of Europe?

5. What did Paine think were society's greatest laws?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Paine respond to objections about Rights of Man?

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

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

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

5. What did Paine write about the origins of government in Chapter 2?

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

7. What did Paine think should be done about the Peers in England?

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

10. Which changes would Paine make to the revenue distribution system of the monarchy?

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