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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter VII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What public position did Franklin first achieve?
(a) Clerk of the General Assembly.
(b) General Assembly Master.
(c) Brigadier of the General Assembly.
(d) General Assembly Spokesman.

2. What did Franklin need to await before setting up business?
(a) Printing supplies from abroad.
(b) An affordable location to set up shop.
(c) Printing supplies from Boston.
(d) Printing machinery.

3. How did Franklin's former employer's expanded business compare to the man's print house?
(a) Only a little better.
(b) About equal.
(c) Much better.
(d) Worse.

4. What did Franklin convince a number of men to do?
(a) Stop drinking.
(b) Stop paying.
(c) Stop gambling.
(d) Pay a lesser amount.

5. What languages did Franklin learn during his lifetime?
(a) French,Russian, Spanish.
(b) German, Italian, Spanish.
(c) French, Italian, Spanish.
(d) French, Italian, Dutch.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which colonial government was Franklin printing these documents for?

2. What was it Franklin discovered in the end regarding his virtues?

3. Franklin made a final note about his not going to public church services as perhaps "blamable" but that he made no excuse as his purpose was to do what?

4. Who provided Franklin a letter of recommendation when en route home from Philadelphia?

5. Franklin assisted the postmaster of Philadelphia, a position that did what?

(see the answer key)

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