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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 request after securing a loan for the war?
(a) To read.
(b) To go on vacation.
(c) To retire.
(d) To take on a new role.

2. What did General Howe confiscate in Philadelphia?
(a) Franklin's business.
(b) Franklin's family.
(c) Franklin's house and possessions.
(d) Franklin's experiments.

3. When did William publish some of his father's work?
(a) 1815.
(b) 1817.
(c) 1819.
(d) 1820.

4. How many articles detailing the new United Colonies of North America did Benjamin Franklin write?
(a) 11.
(b) 13.
(c) 15.
(d) 10.

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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was France's foreign minister at the time of Benjamin Franklin's visit?

2. To what woman did Benjamin Franklin jokingly propose marriage?

3. What does Walter Isaacson say wasn't a straight path for Benjamin Franklin?

4. What letters did Benjamin Franklin forward?

5. How many papers are considered to be the ones founding the republic?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Franklin attempt to do when he went to France, in "Chapter Thirteen"?

2. What hit France in 1783?

3. What could Americans not agree on?

4. What did Franklin edit in Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence?

5. Who was Madame Brillon?

6. What did Franklin turn the world's mind to and how did this effect America?

7. What did Franklin inadvertently invent?

8. Who was Arthur Bancroft?

9. What did Franklin forsake on March 20, 1778?

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

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