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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which office were foreigners prohibited from having under the American Constitution?
(a) Mayor.
(b) Senator.
(c) Governor.
(d) President.

2. Because the English government was undisciplined in Paine's opinion, what were they too preoccupied with?
(a) Foreign affairs.
(b) Taxation.
(c) Changing the laws.
(d) Maintaining the laws.

3. Who did Paine contend that a monarchy was maintained to amuse?
(a) The gullible.
(b) The stupid.
(c) The rich.
(d) The poor.

4. What style was Part One of Rights of Man written in by Paine?
(a) Educational.
(b) Popular.
(c) Provoking.
(d) Traditional.

5. How did Paine describe America in Part Two of Rights of Man?
(a) A country of rapid production.
(b) A country of limitless production.
(c) A country of rapid progress.
(d) A country of limitless progress.

6. Which effect did Paine think domestic trade had on foreign trade?
(a) Neither of them were connected.
(b) If one was the good, the other was not necessarily good too.
(c) If one was good, the other was too.
(d) If one was good, the other could not be.

7. In proportion to the poor, what kind of taxes did Paine think the Peers should have paid?
(a) Lower.
(b) Slightly higher.
(c) Much higher.
(d) The same.

8. 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 underpaid.
(d) They were unemployed.

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

10. What was it about George Washington, the first American President, that Paine thought put all of the kings to shame?
(a) His loyalty.
(b) His independence.
(c) His courage.
(d) His character.

11. What were the new principles of government that Paine wrote about in Of the Old and New Systems of Government?
(a) Provisional justice and legality.
(b) Provisional justice and loyalty.
(c) Delegation of power and the common good.
(d) Delegation of power and the common interest.

12. What type of formal government did the frontier areas of America have before the American Revolution?
(a) More than they did after the Revolution.
(b) The same as they did after the Revolution.
(c) None.
(d) Very little.

13. Why did Paine think the Articles of Confederation was ineffective?
(a) It was too representative.
(b) It was too detailed.
(c) It was not representative enough.
(d) It was not detailed enough.

14. What type of ignorance did Paine think the monarchy acted in when using its arbitrary power?
(a) Superstitious.
(b) Selective.
(c) Random.
(d) Temporary.

15. In Paine's opinion, what did the power of the Peers represent?
(a) Financial ignorance.
(b) Political corruption.
(c) Political inequality.
(d) Financial devastation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word did Paine use to describe the English Constitution in Of Constitutions?

2. What was Paine's opinion of Burke's new work when he wrote Part Two of Rights of Man?

3. How did Paine think the national debt should be paid off in Ways and Means of Improving the Conditions of Europe?

4. What idea did Paine think the European government should be constructed on?

5. What did Paine advocate for business regulations in the British government?

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