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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Eleven.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What militia did Benjamin Franklin create?
(a) The Pennsylvania Militia.
(b) The Boston Militia.
(c) The United Militia.
(d) The Colonist Militia.

2. Whom did he compose the poem "Here Skugg/Lies snug/As a bug/In a rug" for?
(a) A dead friend.
(b) A dead mouse.
(c) A dead squirrel.
(d) A dead dog.

3. What letters did Benjamin Franklin forward?
(a) The Hall Letters.
(b) The Hillsborough Letters.
(c) The Hutchinson Letters.
(d) The Hume Letters.

4. Who was Benjamin Franklin reunited with while in England?
(a) William's mother.
(b) Franklin's sister.
(c) A romantic interest.
(d) William's illegitimate son.

5. What did Benjamin Franklin say he would rather build, according to "Chapter Five"?
(a) "A City for the Colony."
(b) "A City for Man."
(c) "A City of Saints than the City of Sinners."
(d) "A City of Man than the City of God."

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Benjamin Franklin observe while touring England, in "Chapter Eleven"?

2. What did Benjamin Franklin use to attract lightning away from villages?

3. What did Benjamin Franklin have the assembly do to support a hospital?

4. What did Benjamin Franklin believe about individualism and communitarianism?

5. What did Benjamin Franklin say the middle class had few of?

(see the answer key)

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