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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what other fields of employment did Franklin note some eventually found interest?
(a) Financial and medical.
(b) Legal and medical.
(c) Legal and political.
(d) Military and political.

2. Franklin noted the oldest son being apprenticed in a smithing trade was a tradition that went how far back?
(a) 300 years.
(b) 1,000 years.
(c) 500 years.
(d) 100 years.

3. Josiah Franklin took his first wife and three children to America where they had how many more?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 10.
(d) 5.

4. Franklin said his father was an "agreeable" man but very traditional, serious, and what else?
(a) Religious.
(b) Demanding.
(c) Important.
(d) Strict.

5. His father told him he might consider helping him out if Franklin did what?
(a) Worked in the printing trade for several more years.
(b) Earned half the cost of his business first.
(c) Saved a good portion of what he needed.
(d) Earned his passage back to Philadelphia.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Franklin asked for three pennies worth of something at a bakery in Philadelphia, he received three giant rolls and realized what?

2. Franklin loved his new life in Philadelphia and he became what?

3. Collins broke his word to Franklin several times, but when did the pair become estranged?

4. On his first day in Philadelphia, as he walked down the road, Franklin passed what for the first time?

5. Which three friends did Franklin spend his last months in Philadelphia with?

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