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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What two things did Paine think were at the root of old governments in Of the Old and New Systems of Government?
(a) Power and self-aggrandizement.
(b) Greed and delusion.
(c) Greed and deception.
(d) Power and self-promotiion.

2. How did Paine describe the monarchical government that the American Constitution avoided in Of Constitutions?
(a) Childish embarrassment.
(b) Insulting mistake.
(c) Ridiculous injustice.
(d) Senseless abomination.

3. How did Paine describe republicanism in Of the Old and New Systems of Government?
(a) It reinforces the notion of loyalty.
(b) It promotes the common good.
(c) It reinforces the notion of justice.
(d) It promotes the common thinking.

4. What three things did Paine believe would progress as a result of future Revolutions?
(a) Universal war, commerce, and governmental politics.
(b) Reason, universal peace, and commerce.
(c) Reason, commerce, and universal war.
(d) Reason, universal peace, and governmental politics.

5. As Paine explained in Of Society and Civilization, what has nature given man to ensure the cooperation needed to survive?
(a) Wants that preceed the ability to provide.
(b) A desire to develop the undeveloped.
(c) A desire to create a better way.
(d) Wants that exceed the ability to provide.

6. How many nations did Paine believe had the right to establish constitutions?
(a) Several of them.
(b) Most of them.
(c) Only a few of them.
(d) All of them.

7. What was Paine's opinion of Burke's new work when he wrote Part Two of Rights of Man?
(a) He did not think much of it.
(b) He thought is was a slight improvement.
(c) He did not read it.
(d) He thought it was worse than before.

8. How many houses of Congress were part of the Constitution that was ratified at the constitutional convention?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) One.
(d) None.

9. Based on the information in Ways and Means of Improving the Conditions of Europe, what should be the aim of the new governments of Europe?
(a) General laws.
(b) General happiness.
(c) Specific laws.
(d) Specific happiness.

10. What concern did many people in the states have about the newly ratified Constitution?
(a) It was too long.
(b) It would be interpreted literally by the government.
(c) It would be interpreted differently by the government.
(d) It was too short.

11. Besides the mutual dependence of man, what did Paine think would drive social order forward?
(a) Varied interests.
(b) Varied laws.
(c) Reciprocal interests.
(d) Reciprocal laws.

12. When in 1174 did Congress meet to offer recommendations about the new Constitution?
(a) November.
(b) September.
(c) August.
(d) February.

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

14. What type of taxes did the Peers pay?
(a) Low.
(b) Average.
(c) None.
(d) High.

15. Which words did Paine use to depict the costs of the monarchy in Ways and Means of Improving the Conditions of Europe?
(a) Obscene and insane.
(b) Obscene and unqualified.
(c) Obscene, unexplained and insane.
(d) Unqualified and unexplained.

Short Answer Questions

1. After explaining why he thought corporations should be abolished, what did Paine say companies should be free to do?

2. How did Paine describe America in Part Two of Rights of Man?

3. How did Paine react to Burke's refusal to respond to Part One of Rights of Man?

4. In concluding Of the Old and New Systems of Government, what did Paine state was the basis for free governments?

5. What type of formal government did the frontier areas of America have before the American Revolution?

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