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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the first character created by Benjamin Franklin?

2. When did Benjamin Franklin return to America?

3. Whom did the British send to push the French out of the Ohio valley?

4. "Chapter One" argues Benjamin Franklin was the country's first what?

5. What was Benjamin Franklin's daughter name?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Franklin do in an effort to sink Keimer, in "Chapter Four"?

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

3. What was lightning considered prior to Franklin's work?

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

5. What was the Union Fire Company?

6. Why couldn't Deborah and Franklin marry?

7. What was Franklin's view of the role of women?

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

9. Why did Franklin create the Pennsylvania Militia?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine Franklin's religious persuasion during childhood and compare it with his adult life.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss how Franklin's beliefs typified the Age of Enlightenment and conclude why his ideas were excluded from the canon of philosophy.

Essay Topic 3

Examine the relationship between Britain and the colonies in the 1700s.

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