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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what item did Homer have to beg?
(a) Bread.
(b) Water.
(c) Respect.
(d) Truth.

2. What adjective is used to describe all types of blood?
(a) Worthy.
(b) Ancient.
(c) Red.
(d) Necessary.

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

4. Every man may be able to boast about his honesty, but few men can boast about what?
(a) Wisdom.
(b) Truth.
(c) Understanding.
(d) Clear conscience.

5. When talking about the forbearance of a traveler, which animal is not mentioned?
(a) Ass.
(b) Deer.
(c) Goat.
(d) Hog.

6. In what year was Franklin born?
(a) 1721.
(b) 1706.
(c) 1732.
(d) 1699.

7. What is the one thing that dares not enter a working man's house?
(a) Cold.
(b) Illness.
(c) Hunger.
(d) Pestilence.

8. One should not fear death. The sooner one dies, the sooner he will be ___________.
(a) Free.
(b) Liberated.
(c) Clean.
(d) Immortal.

9. Franklin says that eyes, along with this, bear no jests. What will bear no jest?
(a) God.
(b) Wife.
(c) Child.
(d) Priest.

10. A light purse is considered to be which of the following?
(a) A real pity.
(b) Nothing worse.
(c) A heavy curse.
(d) Not a sin.

11. If one chooses to lie down with the dogs, he will most likely rise up with what?
(a) Anger.
(b) Fleas.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Sorrow.

12. If one loves life then one should be careful not to squander what?
(a) Blood.
(b) Time.
(c) Love.
(d) Books.

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

14. What, along with visitors, will stink after three days?
(a) Fish.
(b) Rotted meat.
(c) A wet dog.
(d) Woes.

15. After crosses and losses, men tend to become which of the following?
(a) Stealthy and quiet.
(b) Holy and silent.
(c) Humbler and wiser.
(d) Forthright and honest.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two items do not make a good meal combination?

2. The first proverb refers to what kind of money?

3. In several sayings, Franklin warns against calculating your future before it happens. What saying most closely compares to that thought?

4. If one eats few suppers, one will have less need for which of the following?

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

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