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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Benjamin Franklin disliked immigrants from what country?
(a) France.
(b) Italy.
(c) England.
(d) Germany.

3. 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.

4. Who did the Pennsylvania Assembly win a libel case against?
(a) William Downes.
(b) William Denny.
(c) William Stevenson.
(d) William Smith.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Benjamin Franklin meet during his summer travels in England?

2. Who formed the Junto?

3. What caused Benjamin Franklin's friendship with James Ralph to end?

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

5. What did Benjamin Franklin think of the bill proposed by the Proprietors?

Short Essay Questions

1. How were Americans regarded in London?

2. What did the Library Company of Philadelphia allowed Franklin to do, according to "Chapter Five"?

3. What was James' the first to fight for?

4. To what did Franklin hope to be assigned, in "Chapter Nine"?

5. What did Braddock underestimate and what did Franklin do to help the situation?

6. What troubled Franklin about William?

7. Who was William Kieth, according to "Chapter Three"?

8. What did Franklin open, in "Chapter Seven"?

9. Why did the postage service become a public issue rather than a private interest?

10. How long did Franklin think he would work in London, in "Chapter Eight"?

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