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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section Two Through Page 40.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Franklin it is not the large things that wreak havoc. Instead, what is more likely to sink a ship?
(a) Loose lips.
(b) A faulty captain.
(c) Tear in the sail.
(d) Small leak.

2. What, when kept, will ensure that one can also keep one's friends?
(a) Word.
(b) Promises.
(c) Temper.
(d) Tongue.

3. Which of the following did Franklin consider to be the most important virtue?
(a) Kindness.
(b) Honesty.
(c) Forthrightness.
(d) Humility.

4. Franklin says that a mob is a monster and although it has many heads it lacks what?
(a) Sense.
(b) Humility.
(c) Brains.
(d) Discretion.

5. Franklin stated that while one's pride increases, which of the following declines?
(a) Virtue.
(b) Humility.
(c) Industriousness.
(d) Fortune.

Short Answer Questions

1. What other occupation was held by the poet?

2. A modern wit is considered to one of the fools belonging to whom?

3. Lawyers are compared to what animal in Proverb 3?

4. When a person is forty-years-old, what part of him is in the most control?

5. If one does what he knows he should do, it will be easy to live with which of the following?

(see the answer key)

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