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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. When did Benjamin Franklin die?
(a) April 17, 1790.
(b) April 7, 1784.
(c) April 17, 1786.
(d) April 17, 1792.

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

3. Where did the convention to discuss the new constitution take place?
(a) Washington, D.C.
(b) New York.
(c) Boston.
(d) Philadelphia.

4. What did John Paul Jones do before the Revolution war?
(a) He was a navigator.
(b) He was a privateer.
(c) He was a spy.
(d) He was a foot soldier.

5. When did the British troops try to arrest Samuel Adams and John Hancock?
(a) March 18, 1776.
(b) June 18, 1775.
(c) April 18, 1775
(d) May 18, 1775.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Congress accept Benjamin Franklin's resignation?

2. Who replaced Silas Deane in France, according to "Chapter Fourteen"?

3. What did Benjamin Franklin say the middle class had few of?

4. Who was the friend Benjamin Franklin met while traveling Ireland and Scotland?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Franklin the only person to do?

2. What could Americans not agree on?

3. Where did Franklin travel in August 1771 and whom did he meet?

4. What did Franklin take over, according to "Chapter Fourteen"?

5. What did the Second Continental Congress create?

6. What happened on December 16, 1773?

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

8. Who was Arthur Bancroft?

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

10. What hit France in 1783?

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