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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which colleges awarded Franklin honorary degrees?
(a) Wesleyan, Boston.
(b) New York, Cambridge.
(c) Cambridge, Yale.
(d) Yale, Harvard.

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

3. Franklin became the Postmaster and had the opportunity to do what?
(a) Travel around America.
(b) Travel around Europe.
(c) Travel around England.
(d) Travel around Pennsylvania.

4. What did Franklin regret about his stay in England?
(a) Much, but learned a lot.
(b) Stayed too long.
(c) Little.
(d) Did not stay longer.

5. In what year did the physician friend of Franklin propose a town hospital?
(a) 1751.
(b) 1753.
(c) 1755.
(d) 1757.

Short Answer Questions

1. How successful was Franklin's funding proposal for the hospital?

2. In London, Franklin learned what about Governor Keith?

3. Franklin made a final note about his not going to public church services as perhaps "blamable" but that he made no excuse as his purpose was to do what?

4. What was Franklin's response to those who played pranks on him when he did not pay into the pot?

5. What are other traits Franklin believed a "good" individual had?

(see the answer key)

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