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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Benjamin Franklin use to attract lightning away from villages?
(a) A wood post.
(b) A rod.
(c) A rubber mat.
(d) A key.

2. What does Walter Isaacson think Benjamin Franklin exemplified?
(a) The American ideal of freedom.
(b) The American ideal of philosophy.
(c) The American ideal of upward mobility.
(d) The American ideal of religion.

3. How did Britain rationalize sending convicts to America?
(a) The change in punishment would discipline them.
(b) The change in climate would change their dispositions.
(c) The change in government would change them.
(d) The change in food would discipline them.

4. Why did Benjamin Franklin create his militia?
(a) Because of the threats from the French.
(b) Because of religious uprising.
(c) Because of the threat from England.
(d) Because of the threats from French and Indian war.

5. Who was Benjamin Franklin's favorite sibling?
(a) His younger brother Joseph.
(b) His younger sister Anne.
(c) His younger brother Thomas.
(d) His younger sister Jane.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Benjamin Franklin theorize attracted lightning?

2. When was Benjamin Franklin invited to join the Freemasons?

3. On the way to London, who offered to pay Benjamin Franklin's way back to America?

4. Who was the Proprietor of Pennsylvania when Benjamin Franklin was in London?

5. What did Benjamin Franklin say he would rather build, according to "Chapter Five"?

(see the answer key)

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