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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which three friends did Franklin spend his last months in Philadelphia with?
(a) Charles Osborne, Joseph Watson, James Ralph.
(b) Joseph Osborne, Charles Watson, James Ralph.
(c) Charles Osborne, Joseph Watson, Ralph James.
(d) Charles Osborne, James Watson, Joseph Ralph.

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

4. One advantage of his intellectual club was to network with other intellectuals, most importantly those who could provide what?
(a) Facilities in which they could meet.
(b) References and services at a later time.
(c) Loan money to back other members' plans.
(d) Books they maintain in their personal libraries.

5. In his autobiography, what point did Franklin devote the most pages to?
(a) His virtues plan.
(b) His father.
(c) His courtship of Miss Read.
(d) His view of religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Franklin believed in God and attended church how frequently?

2. Franklin noted the oldest son being apprenticed in a smithing trade was a tradition that went how far back?

3. What bad news prompted Franklin to go to Boston again?

4. What did the co-worker who helped Franklin do when he was able to set up shop?

5. What did Franklin institute using the building that Mr. Whitefield built?

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