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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section One Through Page 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A lean award is better than a fat what?
(a) Judgment.
(b) Punishment.
(c) Purse.
(d) Wife.

2. Franklin stated that while one's pride increases, which of the following declines?
(a) Virtue.
(b) Industriousness.
(c) Fortune.
(d) Humility.

3. What two items do not make a good meal combination?
(a) Fruit and grain.
(b) Liver and onions.
(c) Fish and dairy.
(d) Meat and potatoes.

4. To what does Franklin compare to a shadow in the sun?
(a) False friend.
(b) Skittish animals.
(c) Fair weather.
(d) Servants.

5. What type of person never seems absurd as his word is always believed?
(a) Flatterer.
(b) Politician.
(c) Salesman.
(d) Statesman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What industry did Franklin apprentice in at first?

2. What well known learning institution was founded by Franklin?

3. When a person is twenty-years-old, what part of him is in the most control?

4. What almost always has a reason, even if it is not a good one?

5. With which family member did Benjamin work as an apprentice?

(see the answer key)

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