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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Benjamin Franklin retire from his printing business?
(a) 1747.
(b) 1746.
(c) 1745.
(d) 1748.

2. "Chapter Five" says Benjamin Franklin did not accept what?
(a) Taxation.
(b) Freemasonry.
(c) Calvinism.
(d) Church dogma.

3. What did Benjamin Franklin approve of religion focusing on?
(a) Morality and virtue.
(b) Patience and virtue.
(c) Patience and morality.
(d) Morality and compassion.

4. What traveling preacher was Benjamin Franklin partial to?
(a) Samuel Hemphill.
(b) George Whitefield.
(c) Stephen Williams.
(d) Jonathan Edwards.

5. Who did Benjamin Franklin hope his son would marry?
(a) Caty Ray.
(b) Polly Stevenson.
(c) Mary Walass.
(d) Ingrid De Franch.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who told Benjamin Franklin that "as you go through this world--and you'll miss many hard thumps"?

2. Why didn't Deborah follow Benjamin Franklin to London?

3. Whose coronation did Benjamin Franklin attend in 1761?

4. What did Benjamin Franklin's assignment as clerk allowed him to take away from Bradford?

5. Who did William Franklin marry?

(see the answer key)

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