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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Sally send to France as a present for the Queen?
(a) American made guns.
(b) American made clothing.
(c) American made cotton.
(d) American made silk.

2. What did Benjamin Franklin observe while touring England, in "Chapter Eleven"?
(a) The war.
(b) The media.
(c) The industrial revolution.
(d) The assembly.

3. Who did the French want Benjamin Franklin to meet?
(a) Voltaire.
(b) Rousseau.
(c) Descartes.
(d) Baudeau.

4. Who was the nemesis Benjamin Franklin met while traveling Ireland and Scotland?
(a) Hume.
(b) Hutchinson.
(c) Keimer.
(d) Hillsborough.

5. What did Benjamin Franklin and William fight over?
(a) The British.
(b) Politics and William's wife.
(c) Temple and politics.
(d) Temple and William's wife.

6. What did Benjamin Franklin inadvertently invent?
(a) Rubber.
(b) Invisible ink.
(c) The telescope.
(d) Daylight savings time.

7. What did "Chapter Sixteen," "Chapter Seventeen," and "Conclusion" say was added to Franklin's house?
(a) A library.
(b) A visitor center.
(c) A new kitchen.
(d) An infirmary.

8. When did Benjamin Franklin sign the Franco-American treaty?
(a) February 15, 1778.
(b) February 30, 1778.
(c) February 5, 1778.
(d) February 25, 1778.

9. What did Benjamin Franklin say the middle class had few of?
(a) Historians.
(b) Politicians.
(c) Scientists.
(d) Philosophers.

10. What is the name of the little story that Benjamin Franklin wrote to explain his personality?
(a) The balette.
(b) The bagatelle.
(c) The baguette.
(d) The baglette.

11. How old was Benjamin Franklin when he started writing his family history?
(a) 65.
(b) 55.
(c) 60.
(d) 70.

12. What did Benny become after Benjamin Franklin's return in America, according to "Chapter Sixteen," "Chapter Seventeen," and "Conclusion"?
(a) A publicist.
(b) A farmer.
(c) An inventor.
(d) A printer.

13. What career did Temple try and fail at after he returned to America?
(a) Politics.
(b) Teaching.
(c) Printing.
(d) Farming.

14. Where were Burgoyne and his forces defeated?
(a) Battle of Saratoga.
(b) Battle of Ticonderoga.
(c) Battle of Bunker Hill.
(d) Battle of Cherbourg.

15. What woman was Benjamin Franklin's neighbor in France?
(a) Madame Brillon.
(b) Madame Hiroe.
(c) Madame Helvetius.
(d) Madame Deane.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Benjamin Franklin travel to France, according to "Chapter Thirteen"?

2. What did Benjamin Franklin request after securing a loan for the war?

3. Who did Benny marry?

4. When did Benjamin Franklin die?

5. Whom did he compose the poem "Here Skugg/Lies snug/As a bug/In a rug" for?

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