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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Ways and Means of Improving the Conditions of Europe, Interspersed with Miscellaneous Observations.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Considering the point that Paine made in Of Constitutions, what were governments designed to promote under a constitution?
(a) Only the individual good.
(b) Only the collective good.
(c) Neither the individual nor the collective good.
(d) The individual and collective good.

2. As Paine wrote in Part Two of Rights of Man, what did the American Revolution put into practice for the first time?
(a) Less government laws.
(b) More government laws.
(c) Realistic theory.
(d) Democratic theory.

3. Besides English, which other language was Rights of Man published in?
(a) Italian.
(b) German.
(c) French.
(d) Spanish.

4. As Paine wrote in Rights of Man, what must each generation set for themselves to avoid being servants of the past?
(a) Rights.
(b) Conditions.
(c) Taxes.
(d) Limits.

5. What taxes did Paine think should be abolished in the British government?
(a) Houses and poor-rates, but not windows.
(b) Poor-rates, but not houses or windows.
(c) Houses, windows, and poor-rates.
(d) Windows and poor-rates, but not houses.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. After apologizing for the miscellany in the Miscellaneous Chapter, how did Paine describe Burke's book?

4. Why did Paine have an accurate account of the Revolution he discussed in Rights of Man?

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?

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