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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. After explaining why he thought corporations should be abolished, what did Paine say companies should be free to do?
(a) Compete with corporations.
(b) Compete with each other.
(c) Merge with corporations.
(d) Merge with each other.

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

3. What did Paine urge the people of Europe to believe in?
(a) Their ability to govern themselves.
(b) Their ability to organize themselves.
(c) Their understanding of laws.
(d) Their understanding of civilization.

4. Which alliance did Paine suggest should take place in Ways and Means of Improving the Conditions of Europe?
(a) America, Italy, and France.
(b) America, Italy, and England.
(c) Italy, England, and France.
(d) America, England, and France.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Paine describe the monarchical government that the American Constitution avoided in Of Constitutions?

2. Which event did Paine refer to in Of the Origin of the Present Old Governments as he discussed the formation of the English government?

3. As mentioned in Ways and Means of Improving the Conditions of Europe, what year did the Glorious Revolution take place?

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

5. Announcing the arrival of representative government at the end of Ways and Means of Improving the Conditions of Europe, how did Paine advise that future revolution should be contemplated?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Paine support commerce and universal trade in Ways and Means of Improving the Conditions of Europe?

2. What was Paine's plan for paying off the national debt in Ways and Means of Improving the Conditions of Europe?

3. Which two functions did Paine divide governments into in Of Constitutions?

4. Which countries did Paine think should have a constitution and what would make it work for them?

5. What was the purpose of Congress' original meetings in 1774 and 1775, and what effect did the Declaration of Independence have on America?

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

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

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

9. How did Paine end Rights of Man with the optimism of the coming Revolutions and Republics?

10. Why did Paine think that natural rights rejected hereditary government?

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