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

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

3. How did Paine refer to tax revenue in the European governments?
(a) Very little of it was being wasted.
(b) Not enough of it was being generated.
(c) So much of it was being wasted.
(d) None of it was being wasted.

4. As mentioned by Paine in Of the Old and New Systems of Government, which type of monarchy did Abbe Sieyes prefer?
(a) Selective.
(b) Hereditary.
(c) Generational.
(d) Elective.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Using history to support his opinion, what did Paine find unsurprising about how governments began?

2. 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?

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

4. What word did Paine use to describe the English Constitution in Of Constitutions?

5. After explaining why he thought corporations should be abolished, what did Paine say companies should be free to do?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why did Paine think that America was the only country that could have tried the new form of government he supported?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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