Poor Richard's Almanack Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 93 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Poor Richard's Almanack Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 93 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section One Through Page 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When a person is twenty-years-old, what part of him is in the most control?
(a) Ambition.
(b) Anger.
(c) Wit.
(d) Will.

2. What is a "clodpate?"
(a) Peddler.
(b) Part of a ship.
(c) Horse shoe.
(d) Blockhead.

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

4. One should take a lot of time and much care when choosing _____________.
(a) A good horse.
(b) A friend.
(c) A wife.
(d) Land to plow.

5. While one strives to be at peace with one's neighbors, one should always strive to be at war with what?
(a) Self.
(b) Vice.
(c) Government.
(d) Enemies.

Short Answer Questions

1. Franklin believes that an innocent ______ is more worthy than a vicious prince.

2. Who/what will not allow a new error or a new truth?

3. Franklin says that a father is a treasure and a brother is what?

4. In what city was Benjamin Franklin born?

5. Franklin refers to a villain in relation to being anointed and which of the following?

(see the answer key)

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