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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word is used to describe a stubborn and obstinate person?
(a) Boastful.
(b) Blockhead.
(c) Overzealous.
(d) Windbag.

2. An undutiful daughter will surely make what kind of wife?
(a) Unmanageable.
(b) Undutiful.
(c) Insufficient.
(d) Unwelcome.

3. Lawyers are compared to what animal in Proverb 3?
(a) Cats.
(b) Pigs.
(c) Dogs.
(d) Donkeys.

4. What one thing is said to be the root of evil as well as the cause of a dull brain?
(a) A stocked pantry.
(b) Liquor.
(c) A full belly.
(d) Money.

5. With which family member did Benjamin work as an apprentice?
(a) William.
(b) Benjamin Sr.
(c) Josiah.
(d) James.

6. The fools that are most troublesome are the ones that possess which of the following?
(a) Weapons.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Power.
(d) Wit.

7. All things are difficult to those that practice what?
(a) Apathy.
(b) Laziness.
(c) Anger.
(d) Sloth.

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

9. If one avoids all temptations, one might be granted a ____.
(a) Place in heaven.
(b) Long life.
(c) Peaceful mind.
(d) Clear conscience.

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

11. Franklin mentions three things should not be taken by candlelight. Which is not one of the three?
(a) Linen.
(b) Girls.
(c) Gold.
(d) Horse.

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

13. What famous poet is referred to in this section?
(a) Homer.
(b) Nero.
(c) Aesop.
(d) Brutus.

14. Who is unable to learn in any school but the school of experience?
(a) Child.
(b) Fool.
(c) Naive.
(d) Deaf.

15. In what city was Benjamin Franklin born?
(a) Paris.
(b) London.
(c) Boston.
(d) Philadelphia.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What well known learning institution was founded by Franklin?

3. The truth stands on how many legs?

4. From what physical ailment did the man suffer?

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

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