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

2. What did Paine say was crucial to a good constitution at the end of Of Constitutions?
(a) The power to believe in it.
(b) The power to understand it.
(c) The power to enforce it.
(d) The power to revise it.

3. How much power did Paine think the Articles of Confederation gave the states?
(a) He did not comment on it.
(b) Not enough.
(c) The right amount.
(d) Too much.

4. In concluding Of the Old and New Systems of Government, what did Paine state was the basis for free governments?
(a) Persons, not law.
(b) Law, not persons.
(c) Law and persons.
(d) Neither law nor persons.

5. How long after the first part of Rights of Man was Part Two published?
(a) Two months.
(b) One month.
(c) One year.
(d) Two years.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Paine characterize constitutions and governments in Of Constitutions?

2. How did Paine describe the idea of bureaucrats managing trade properly?

3. According to Paine in Of the Old and New Systems of Government, what was the American Presidency originally built on?

4. Considering the point that Paine made in Of Constitutions, what were governments designed to promote under a constitution?

5. What was it about George Washington, the first American President, that Paine thought put all of the kings to shame?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How was the Constitution passed and what concerns did people have about it at the time?

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

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

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

10. How did Paine describe Republicanism as a response to Burke at the end of Chapter 3?

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