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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the Assembly vote to send Benjamin Franklin back to England?
(a) December 1764.
(b) November 1764.
(c) October 1764.
(d) September 1764.

2. Who survived the British expedition against the French in the Ohio Valley to become a pillar of the Revolutionary war?
(a) Thomas Mifflin.
(b) Benjamin Franklin.
(c) James Madison.
(d) George Washington.

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

4. What does "Chapter Five" say was sweeping through the colonies at the time of Benjamin Franklin's invitation to join the Freemasons?
(a) The Industrial Revolution.
(b) Dysentery.
(c) Indians.
(d) The Great Awakening.

5. What was the place of electricity in Benjamin Franklin's research?
(a) He used it to explain anathomical problems.
(b) It was its cornerstone.
(c) It was a minor part.
(d) He studied it after weather paterns.

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

7. Where did Benjamin Franklin and his new co-postmaster extend the postal service to?
(a) All 13 colonies.
(b) Mexico.
(c) France.
(d) Canada.

8. "Chapter One" argues Benjamin Franklin was the country's first what?
(a) Publicist.
(b) Physicist.
(c) Inventor.
(d) Politician.

9. What happened to Benjamin Franklin's father's first wife?
(a) She disappeared.
(b) She divorced him.
(c) She died.
(d) She became ill.

10. "Chapter Two" states Franklin's family name meant what in the Middle Ages?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Freeman.
(c) Fairness.
(d) Free thinker.

11. Why did the Assembly send Benjamin Franklin back to England?
(a) To give ships back to England.
(b) To present a request to reverse taxation.
(c) To present a petition against Proprietors.
(d) To give the Paxton Boys back to England.

12. Who did Benjamin Franklin seek to work for?
(a) The distant people.
(b) The centering people.
(c) The middling people.
(d) The nearby people.

13. What governorship did William Franklin obtain?
(a) Governorship of New York.
(b) Governorship of Massachusetts.
(c) Governorship of New Jersey.
(d) Governorship of Pennsylvania.

14. Who did William Franklin marry?
(a) Elizabeth Downes.
(b) Polly Stevenson.
(c) Sally Devonshire.
(d) Elizabeth Downy.

15. How long did Benjamin Franklin stay in England on his third voyage there?
(a) 10 years.
(b) 5 years.
(c) 3 years.
(d) 1 year.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Benjamin Franklin supposed to get in London for the printing shop?

2. When did Benjamin Franklin retire from his printing business?

3. Who did the Paxton Boys kill?

4. With whom did Benjamin Franklin go to London?

5. What made Benjamin Franklin an opponent of the proprietor's control over the colonies?

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