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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 year did the constitutional convention take place?
(a) 1784.
(b) 1785.
(c) 1786.
(d) 1787.

2. As explained by Paine in Of Constitutions, what made the constitutions binding?
(a) Nations put their success as a priority.
(b) Nations had no interest in being wrong.
(c) Nations had no interest in being misled.
(d) Nations put their coexistence as a priority.

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

4. What type of trade did Paine think would destroy war in Ways and Means of Improving the Conditions of Europe?
(a) Complex.
(b) National.
(c) Universal.
(d) Basic.

5. How did Paine describe the laws protecting the aristocracy in Ways and Means of Improving the Conditions of Europe?
(a) Brutal and confusing.
(b) Misleading and confusing.
(c) Brutal and unjust.
(d) Misleading and unjust.

Short Answer Questions

1. Building on the foundation of Part One, in what style was Part Two of Rights of Man written?

2. Which office were foreigners prohibited from having under the American Constitution?

3. How did Paine describe the society in small domains where government was necessary?

4. How many nations did Paine believe had the right to establish constitutions?

5. Besides the mutual dependence of man, what did Paine think would drive social order forward?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was Paine's opinion of corporate charters?

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

4. How and why were the committees of America formed before the Declaration of Independence?

5. How did Paine describe the elderly and the children in Europe?

6. How did Paine define the old governments and the new governments in Chapter 3?

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

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

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

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

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