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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section Four Through Page 77.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What two words does Franklin use to describe himself?
(a) Fat and bald.
(b) Poor and lame.
(c) Old and wise.
(d) Patriotic and forthright.

2. What are two of the oldest companions to man?
(a) Greed and want.
(b) Anger and covetousness.
(c) Beauty and folly.
(d) Wish and sloth.

3. What should you leave behind come the new year?
(a) Almanack.
(b) Greed.
(c) Bad habits.
(d) Sorrow.

4. In several sayings, Franklin warns against calculating your future before it happens. What saying most closely compares to that thought?
(a) A stitch in time saves nine.
(b) Haste makes waste.
(c) Don't count your chickens before they hatch.
(d) He who lives in glass houses should not throw stones.

5. What is another name for someone who is considered to be lazy?
(a) Clodpate.
(b) Sluggard.
(c) Slovenly.
(d) Ill.

Short Answer Questions

1. In more modern days, it was said that time does what to all things?

2. When you try to talk to another person you should try to talk about what interests them not about what?

3. What did Jack eat?

4. A man who has not had the opportunity of celebrity must often replace it with which of the following?

5. "You may delay, but time will not" is most similar to which saying?

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