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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who competed against Benjamin Franklin, as a result of Franklin's success as a printer?
(a) Thomas Hutchinson.
(b) Benny Bache.
(c) Andrew Bradford.
(d) Andrew Hamilton.

2. What did Benjamin Franklin's father do for a living?
(a) He made tea.
(b) He made candles and soap.
(c) He wrote books.
(d) He grew cotton.

3. What does Walter Isaacson say Benjamin Franklin easily made?
(a) Long-term relationships with women.
(b) Casual female friends.
(c) Long-term relationships with men.
(d) Casual male friends.

4. Why did Benjamin Frankly create the Junto?
(a) To speak about politics.
(b) To further his business life.
(c) To talk about a rebellion.
(d) To loan books.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What traveling preacher was Benjamin Franklin partial to?

2. What faction did Benjamin Franklin's paper support?

3. Where did Benjamin Franklin store electricity?

4. "Chapter Two" states Franklin's family name meant what in the Middle Ages?

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

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