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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. Franklin talks about the difference between which two often similar things?
(a) Education and knowledge.
(b) Leisure and laziness.
(c) Experience and know how.
(d) Practice and theory.

3. The Franklins had a large family. What number child was Benjamin?
(a) 11.
(b) 15.
(c) 9.
(d) 12.

4. A lean award is better than a fat what?
(a) Wife.
(b) Purse.
(c) Judgment.
(d) Punishment.

5. Which is not listed as one of the things that a man grows tired of after three days?
(a) Rainy weather.
(b) Family members.
(c) Wench.
(d) Guest.

6. What is the best way to serve God according to Franklin?
(a) Virtue.
(b) Service.
(c) Humility.
(d) Righteousness.

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

8. What two items do not make a good meal combination?
(a) Fruit and grain.
(b) Meat and potatoes.
(c) Fish and dairy.
(d) Liver and onions.

9. Franklin takes great care to discuss the anatomy of which of the following?
(a) Lies.
(b) The church.
(c) Human heart.
(d) Virtue.

10. A modern wit is considered to one of the fools belonging to whom?
(a) David.
(b) Jesus.
(c) Abraham.
(d) Samson.

11. From what physical ailment did the man suffer?
(a) Polio.
(b) Deafness.
(c) Blindness.
(d) Diptheria.

12. What type of person never seems absurd as his word is always believed?
(a) Statesman.
(b) Flatterer.
(c) Politician.
(d) Salesman.

13. According to the text, a woman will sober up after what occasion?
(a) Sunrise.
(b) Holidays.
(c) New Year.
(d) Sleep.

14. What will offer solace from a short sleep?
(a) Ale.
(b) A long sleep.
(c) Prayer.
(d) Grave.

15. Franklin refers to a villain in relation to being anointed and which of the following?
(a) Praised.
(b) Stabbed.
(c) Angry.
(d) Abandoned.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Franklin it is not the large things that wreak havoc. Instead, what is more likely to sink a ship?

2. The same feeling may be felt upon the loss of who/what?

3. In Franklin's opinion, what is the last organ to stop when a woman dies?

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

5. What adjective is used to describe all types of blood?

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