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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Benjamin Franklin approve of religion focusing on?
(a) Patience and virtue.
(b) Morality and compassion.
(c) Patience and morality.
(d) Morality and virtue.

2. What country experimented with Benjamin Franklin's lightning theories, solidifying Benjamin Franklin's international reputation?
(a) Italy.
(b) England.
(c) France.
(d) America.

3. What traveling preacher was Benjamin Franklin partial to?
(a) Jonathan Edwards.
(b) George Whitefield.
(c) Stephen Williams.
(d) Samuel Hemphill.

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

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

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

7. Why didn't Deborah follow Benjamin Franklin to London?
(a) She knew he was not faithful.
(b) He knew she was in love.
(c) He knew she would not be comfortable in London society.
(d) They were not getting along well.

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

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

10. What did Benjamin Franklin theorize attracted lightning?
(a) Clock towers.
(b) Church bells.
(c) Church steeples.
(d) Town squares.

11. When did Benjamin Franklin's partnership with David Hall end?
(a) Middle of 1766.
(b) Beginning of 1766.
(c) End of 1766.
(d) End of 1765.

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

13. Where did John Rogers disappear?
(a) Africa.
(b) Bahamas.
(c) The West Indies.
(d) Jamaica.

14. What did Benjamin Franklin invent to help his brother John?
(a) The urinary catheter.
(b) The i.v.
(c) The light bulb.
(d) The thermometer.

15. Who did Benjamin Franklin stay with while in London?
(a) Margaret Stevenson.
(b) Madame Hume.
(c) Madame Helvetius.
(d) Margaret Jacobson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "Chapter Five" say was sweeping through the colonies at the time of Benjamin Franklin's invitation to join the Freemasons?

2. What was the place of electricity in Benjamin Franklin's research?

3. Who was the printer that Benjamin Franklin met in New York, according to "Chapter Three" and "Chapter Four"?

4. Who offered to help Benjamin Franklin set up his own printing shop?

5. How old was Benjamin Franklin when he was enrolled in Latin school?

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