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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. When a person is forty-years-old, what part of him is in the most control?
(a) Judgment.
(b) Wisdom.
(c) Sloth.
(d) Wit.

2. Which of the following did Franklin consider to be the most important virtue?
(a) Honesty.
(b) Kindness.
(c) Forthrightness.
(d) Humility.

3. Franklin believes that an innocent ______ is more worthy than a vicious prince.
(a) Commoner.
(b) Plowman.
(c) Peasant.
(d) Lord.

4. What one thing is said to be the root of evil as well as the cause of a dull brain?
(a) A full belly.
(b) Money.
(c) A stocked pantry.
(d) Liquor.

5. Franklin says that a mob is a monster and although it has many heads it lacks what?
(a) Discretion.
(b) Brains.
(c) Sense.
(d) Humility.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the one thing that dares not enter a working man's house?

2. What type of person never seems absurd as his word is always believed?

3. When talking about the forbearance of a traveler, which animal is not mentioned?

4. Franklin believes that a quiet ______ sleeps in thunder.

5. Which is not listed as one of the things that a man grows tired of after three days?

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