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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Paine describe the picture of corporate towns in Ways and Means of Improving the Conditions of Europe?

2. What did Paine say was crucial to a good constitution at the end of Of Constitutions?

3. How much power did Paine think the Articles of Confederation gave the states?

4. Which effect did Paine think domestic trade had on foreign trade?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. As discussed in Ways and Means of Improving the Conditions of Europe, what effect would a possible alliance with France have for England?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe in detail the origin of the natural rights that Paine wrote about. Include an explanation of what the rights were, where they came from, the differences between natural and civil rights and how those rights should be represented in government and society.

Essay Topic 2

Part Two of Rights of Man began with an Introduction about America's success and the reasons behind it.

1) Describe the aspects of America that Paine thought helped them succeed in forming a new government.

2) Explain why Paine expressed that America was the only place that could have tried a new form of government at that time.

3) Analyze the success of America as it is highlighted by Paine in the Introduction of Part Two of Rights of Man.

Essay Topic 3

Paine provided a detailed analysis of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens.

1) Describe the main articles of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens and their purpose.

2) Explain which articles best represented Paine's positions and why.

3) Analyze the influence that the articles had in the forming of the laws in France.

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