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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. A clear conscience is much like which of the following?
(a) A dove.
(b) Christmas.
(c) A blue sky.
(d) A long sleep.

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

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

5. The best kind of sermon is what?
(a) Experience.
(b) Lecture.
(c) Example.
(d) Pride.

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

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

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

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

10. What type of man does not have good neighbors?
(a) Wealthy.
(b) Pompous.
(c) Quarrelsome.
(d) Impoverished.

11. What well known learning institution was founded by Franklin?
(a) Brown.
(b) Harvard.
(c) William and Mary.
(d) University of Pennsylvania.

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

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

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

15. What almost always has a reason, even if it is not a good one?
(a) Anger.
(b) Envy.
(c) Remorse.
(d) Foolishness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the person who brags that she is beauty?

2. Which is not among the things that will lead to a man's fortune?

3. An undutiful daughter will surely make what kind of wife?

4. Which is not listed as one of the things that a man grows tired of after three days?

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

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