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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As explained by Paine in Of Constitutions, what made the constitutions binding?
(a) Nations had no interest in being misled.
(b) Nations had no interest in being wrong.
(c) Nations put their coexistence as a priority.
(d) Nations put their success as a priority.

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

3. What idea did Paine think the European government should be constructed on?
(a) Universal cooperation.
(b) National civilization.
(c) National cooperation.
(d) Universal civilization.

4. As mentioned by Paine in Of the Old and New Systems of Government, which type of monarchy did Abbe Sieyes prefer?
(a) Selective.
(b) Hereditary.
(c) Elective.
(d) Generational.

5. In Of Society and Civilization, what point did Paine make about social order?
(a) It would be just as strong if government was abolished.
(b) It existed before government and it would exist if government was abolished.
(c) It did not exist before government, but it would exist if government was abolished.
(d) It would be stronger if government was abolished.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Paine urge the people of Europe to believe in?

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

3. What forms of objection were there to the Articles of Confederation?

4. What did Paine think were society's greatest laws?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Paine's opinion of George Washington?

2. How was the Constitution passed and what concerns did people have about it at the time?

3. How did Paine discuss social order in Chapter 1?

4. Based on the information provided in Of Constitutions, how did the American Constitution avoid the same mistakes made by the monarchical governments?

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

6. What description of early America did Paine provide in order to prove how a society could maintain itself without government?

7. How did Paine describe the elderly and the children in Europe?

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

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

10. Which taxes and regulations did Paine think should be reduced or abolished in England?

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