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

2. When did the Boston Massacre occur?
(a) March 5, 1771.
(b) March 15, 1772.
(c) March 25, 1770.
(d) March 5, 1770.

3. When was Benjamin Franklin made a full member of the assembly?
(a) 1750.
(b) 1753.
(c) 1752.
(d) 1751.

4. What was Benjamin Franklin's father's name?
(a) Josiah.
(b) Benjamin.
(c) William.
(d) Jeremiah.

5. Who was co-postmaster, according to "Chapter Nine" and "Chapter Ten"?
(a) Benjamin Franklin.
(b) William Penn.
(c) William Hunter.
(d) William Paxton.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the college Benjamin Franklin opened?

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

3. What consequences did the end of the partnership between Benjamin Franklin and David Hall have?

4. What was the name of the daughter of Benjamin Franklin's landlady while he was in London?

5. How many prints were made of Benjamin Franklin's Dissertation?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Benjamin's apprenticeship at age 10 spark an interest in?

2. What cut into Franklin's income at the end of 1766?

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

4. What troubled Franklin about William?

5. Why did Franklin's family migrate to America, according to "Chapter Two"?

6. What were the Paxton Boys?

7. What caused some historians to think Franklin's experiment was faked?

8. Why couldn't Deborah and Franklin marry?

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

10. What were Franklin's goals, according to "Chapter Ten?"

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