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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 position did Benjamin Franklin take at the Masonic lodge in France?
(a) Grand Master.
(b) Grand Regent.
(c) High Chair.
(d) High Lord.

2. What did Benjamin Franklin invent in August 1784?
(a) Telescope.
(b) Magnifying glass.
(c) Microscope.
(d) Bifocal glasses.

3. To what woman did Benjamin Franklin jokingly propose marriage?
(a) Madame Hiroe.
(b) Madame Brillon.
(c) Madame Helvetius
(d) Madame Helvetian.

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

5. Whom did he compose the poem "Here Skugg/Lies snug/As a bug/In a rug" for?
(a) A dead dog.
(b) A dead friend.
(c) A dead squirrel.
(d) A dead mouse.

Short Answer Questions

1. What bird did Benjamin Franklin want as national bird?

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

3. Who did Benny marry?

4. What office was Benjamin Franklin elected to after the end of the War for Independence?

5. Where was America's first embassy in France?

Short Essay Questions

1. What could Americans not agree on?

2. What did the Second Continental Congress create?

3. What happened to William after Benjamin Franklin's death?

4. What was Franklin's function at the convention, according to "Chapter Sixteen"?

5. What did Franklin begin writing when he stayed with the Shipley family in Twyford, in "Chapter Eleven"?

6. Who was Arthur Bancroft?

7. How did Franklin view chess?

8. Who criticized Franklin's ideas, according to the "Conclusion"?

9. What did Congress accept in May 1785 ,and what did Franklin do?

10. What did John Adams and Franklin disagree over, in "Chapter Fifteen"?

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