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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Britain rationalize sending convicts to America?
(a) The change in climate would change their dispositions.
(b) The change in punishment would discipline them.
(c) The change in government would change them.
(d) The change in food would discipline them.

2. What did Benjamin Franklin theorize attracted lightning?
(a) Church bells.
(b) Town squares.
(c) Clock towers.
(d) Church steeples.

3. What governorship did William Franklin obtain?
(a) Governorship of Pennsylvania.
(b) Governorship of New York.
(c) Governorship of Massachusetts.
(d) Governorship of New Jersey.

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

5. Who did the Pennsylvania Assembly win a libel case against?
(a) William Downes.
(b) William Denny.
(c) William Stevenson.
(d) William Smith.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did Benjamin Franklin stay in England on his third voyage there?

2. "Chapter Five" says Benjamin Franklin did not accept what?

3. What did Benjamin Franklin choose over hotheadedness to make his argument?

4. What did Benjamin Franklin's father do for a living?

5. What did Benjamin Franklin invent to help his brother John?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Braddock underestimate and what did Franklin do to help the situation?

2. What troubled Franklin about William?

3. Why did Franklin's family migrate to America, according to "Chapter Two"?

4. What method did Franklin adopt for his arguments and why?

5. How did Franklin typify the American ideal, according to "Chapter One"?

6. How long did Franklin think he would work in London, in "Chapter Eight"?

7. What was James' the first to fight for?

8. What was lightning considered prior to Franklin's work?

9. What were Franklin's relationships like with other men?

10. Who was George Whitefield, and what did Franklin admire about him?

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