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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many towns contend for Homer?
(a) 7.
(b) 10.
(c) 5.
(d) 20.

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

3. Who/what will not allow a new error or a new truth?
(a) Clodpate.
(b) Dissident.
(c) Tyrant.
(d) Lawyer.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who/what is the namesake of the above woman?

2. Franklin says that a mob is a monster and although it has many heads it lacks what?

3. What might not last very long if the fault only lay with one person?

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

5. Franklin talks about the difference between which two often similar things?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the wisdom contained on Page 7 regarding the way a man eats?

2. How does Franklin feel about being of service to God in one's life?

3. What is the moral of the story behind the tale of the now-famous poet and philosopher?

4. What is the nature of sin? According to Franklin, why is it forbidden?

5. What exactly is the almanack and what does it contain?

6. Franklin shares a short rhymed poem regarding three entities. What are the entities and how are they compared?

7. Give at least one example in which God works in mysterious and wonderful ways.

8. What is Franklin's opinion on meddlers? What is the reason for this opinion?

9. It is strongly advised for one to pay heed to which proverb dealing with faults?

10. How can one live a peaceful existence?

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