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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. How long after the first part of Rights of Man was Part Two published?
(a) Two years.
(b) Two months.
(c) One year.
(d) One month.

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

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

4. Which one of the following was not included by Paine in the list of things that commerce led to?
(a) Prosperity.
(b) Peace.
(c) Structure.
(d) Cordiality.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Besides the mutual dependence of man, what did Paine think would drive social order forward?

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

3. How did Paine describe the picture of corporate towns in Ways and Means of Improving the Conditions of Europe?

4. Which two functions did Paine outline for governments in Of Constitutions?

5. As explained by Paine in Of Constitutions, what made the constitutions binding?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did Paine respond to objections about Rights of Man?

4. What did Paine think should be done about the Peers in England?

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

6. How much time had passed between Part One and Part Two of Rights of Man, and how did Burke respond to Part One?

7. What was Paine's definition of Constitution in Of Constitutions?

8. What was Paine's opinion of corporate charters?

9. Why did Paine think that America was the only country that could have tried the new form of government he supported?

10. How did Paine describe Republicanism as a response to Burke at the end of Chapter 3?

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