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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Junto Library allow Benjamin Franklin to do?
(a) Gain knowledge of the happenings in London.
(b) Correspond with women abroad.
(c) Understand legal terminology.
(d) Interact with the upperclass.

2. Who was the nemesis Benjamin Franklin met while traveling Ireland and Scotland?
(a) Hume.
(b) Keimer.
(c) Hillsborough.
(d) Hutchinson.

3. What does Walter Isaacson think Benjamin Franklin exemplified?
(a) The American ideal of upward mobility.
(b) The American ideal of freedom.
(c) The American ideal of philosophy.
(d) The American ideal of religion.

4. Who did historians learn was a spy for the British?
(a) Silas Deane.
(b) Arthur Lee.
(c) Madame Chaumont.
(d) Arthur Bancroft.

5. Who told Benjamin Franklin that "as you go through this world--and you'll miss many hard thumps"?
(a) Cotton Mather.
(b) Cotton Makson.
(c) Cotton Mahon.
(d) Cotton Matson.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Benjamin Franklin return to America?

2. Why did Benjamin Franklin work only a short time as a merchant?

3. Who was Benjamin Franklin's favorite sibling?

4. What Masonic lodge did Benjamin Franklin go to in France?

5. What did Benjamin Franklin use to attract lightning away from villages?

(see the answer key)

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