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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Of Constitutions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Paine describe the mismanagement of government finances in countries like England and France?
(a) Limited.
(b) Expected.
(c) Shocking.
(d) Uncontrollable.

2. How did Paine summarize Burke's views in the Miscellaneous Chapter?
(a) Burke claimed that individuals had only select rights.
(b) Burke did not understand which rights individuals had.
(c) Burke claimed that individuals had no rights.
(d) Burke did not understand which rights individuals did not have.

3. Which aspect of the government's presumed knowledge could not be accounted for by Burke, according to the listing of his view's problems in the Miscellaneous Chapter?
(a) Its limit.
(b) Its relevance.
(c) Its origin.
(d) Its extent.

4. After apologizing for the miscellany in the Miscellaneous Chapter, how did Paine describe Burke's book?
(a) Mostly miscellany.
(b) All miscellany.
(c) Half miscellany.
(d) Some miscellany.

5. In order to prove the senselessness of Burke's position on the monarchy, what did Paine maintain could not be done to individual rights?
(a) They could not be borrowed or transferred.
(b) They could not be borrowed, transferred or annihilated.
(c) They could not be borrowed or annihilated.
(d) They could not be transferred or annihilated.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which word did Paine use to describe the monarchy in the Miscellaneous Chapter?

2. What concern did many people in the states have about the newly ratified Constitution?

3. Which Pennsylvania town did Paine refer to in Of Constitutions as having its own committee?

4. What did Paine think could be abolished by a European Congress?

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

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