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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which foreign troops were barbaric toward the American colonists?
(a) British.
(b) French.
(c) Both British, French.
(d) Spanish.

2. What bad news prompted Franklin to go to Boston again?
(a) To visit his father, who was dying.
(b) To visit James, who was in jail again.
(c) To visit James, who was dying.
(d) To visit his mother, who was dying.

3. The president would confer with a council representing which group?
(a) Male property owners over 21.
(b) Colonial landowners.
(c) The different colonies.
(d) Colonial governments.

4. Who did Mr. Whitefield set up an orphanage for in Georgia?
(a) Children of the poor whose parents died.
(b) Children whose Christian parents died.
(c) Children whose indentured servant parents died.
(d) Any children whose parents died.

5. Franklin proposed the governmental group would contribute an amount equal to what?
(a) Twice that of the subscribers.
(b) That of the subscribers.
(c) Two percent of city taxes collected annually.
(d) Half that of the subscribers.

6. The first task was to defend which area where enemies were plenty?
(a) Southeast territories.
(b) Northwest territories.
(c) Northeast territories.
(d) Southwest territories.

7. How successful was Franklin's funding proposal for the hospital?
(a) Funding was about in accordance with the original plan.
(b) Funding was somewhat slower than in the initial plan.
(c) Funding was soon more than in the original plan.
(d) Funding was far slower than in the initial plan.

8. As Franklin was readying to leave, Lord Loudoun arrived from England and said he had been sent to settle matters so who would not be bothered?
(a) The Parliment.
(b) The Royal Court.
(c) The Royal Council.
(d) The King.

9. As Franklin's men were leaving this area, how many farmers approached them and asked for guns for protection?
(a) 11.
(b) Several dozen.
(c) 22.
(d) 16.

10. What project did Franklin undertake subsequent to the public hospital?
(a) Public city garbage collection.
(b) City sewer system.
(c) Cleaning the city streets.
(d) City water system.

11. When did Franklin first write his Poor Richard's Almanac?
(a) 1730.
(b) 1734.
(c) 1732.
(d) 1736.

12. In what year did Franklin invent his famous stove?
(a) 1738.
(b) 1740.
(c) 1742.
(d) 1736.

13. On a brief trip to London, Franklin proposed what?
(a) To establish communal fire stations.
(b) To adopt their street lamp system.
(c) To clean their streets also.
(d) To start a public library system.

14. Why was England increasingly suspicious of the colonies' intentions, especially when Franklin was escorted to a ferry by an honor guard?
(a) This was only seen in royalty.
(b) They were distrusting of this pomp.
(c) Franklin was the representative who appeared before the King's court.
(d) They viewed such activities being reserved for the British, not colonists.

15. Braddock was overconfident and did what?
(a) Scoffed at Benjamin's advice.
(b) Scoffed at the colonists.
(c) Relied on his experience.
(d) Relied on his training.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When the colonial military group arrived in these territories, however, they found what?

3. Mr. Whitefield was from which locale?

4. What happened upon this trip in England to represent the colonists that Franklin recorded in his autobiography?

5. What languages did Franklin learn during his lifetime?

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