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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. When they finally sailed, it was a long, slow journey filled with delays and other problems, and Franklin described what?
2. Where did Franklin meet Braddock and gained the general's trust?
3. Braddock and the troops were sent for what two reasons?
4. Franklin wrote papers of all his discoveries which became famous around the globe, so much that renowned scholars began to doubt what?
5. A new preacher arrived of whom Franklin approved as his sermons supported virtuous values, and he published pamphlets for him until he soon learned his sermons plagiarized which individuals?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was Franklin's proposal given France's increasing threat to the American colonies?
2. What was Franklin's connection with the study of electricity?
3. What did Franklin relate regarding his famous Franklin stove?
4. What was the analogy Franklin related between religion and fog?
5. What was Franklin able to do once he had sold most of his businesses?
6. What transpired subsequent to Franklin's pursuit of the office of justice of the peace?
7. What was the initial activity of this militia supported by taxpayers?
8. What was Franklin's involvement in Philadelphia's first town hospital?
9. What were some of the accomplishments Franklin had to praise about the Reverend Mr. Whitefield?
10. What sort of education system did Franklin develop?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What course did Franklin pursue to initially get and remain published when still a teenager? How did his writing progress under his first publisher?
Essay Topic 2
What were the thirteen virtues Franklin pursued as his way of life? Select one of the thirteen virtues and relate why you believe he felt this was one significant enough to include. How did he approach these virtues? How did he feel the others fared in the interim and why?
Essay Topic 3
What did Franklin relate about his own father that perhaps reflected on his relationship with his son, William?
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