View a FREE sample

This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did his new employer seek of Franklin?
(a) Obtain new printing customers.
(b) Put his print shop back in order.
(c) Expand the print shop.
(d) Obtain government work orders.

2. Which colonial government was Franklin printing these documents for?
(a) Massachusetts.
(b) New York.
(c) New Jersey.
(d) Pennsylvania.

3. Why did the contact recommend this to Franklin?
(a) Working in London would help build his reputation.
(b) He would gain international experience in London.
(c) He would be better off when he returned to America and set up shop.
(d) He would be better off if he returned to America as he had no credit.

4. His former co-worker's father did not pay for the business as he had promised, so what did he and Franklin agree to?
(a) He would take up another trade and help Franklin.
(b) He would sell his two horses to help Franklin.
(c) He would sell stationary in Franklin's shop.
(d) Go their separate ways.

5. What was it Franklin discovered in the end regarding his virtues?
(a) He had mastered some virtues but not all.
(b) He was not perfect and did not wish to be.
(c) He was as virtuous as a human could be.
(d) He was not perfect and would never achieve perfection.

6. Franklin was a founding member of an intellectual club bearing what name?
(a) JACKAL
(b) JUNTO.
(c) JAGUAR.
(d) JUNCO.

7. What did a contact advised Franklin to do?
(a) Get a job working as a journalist.
(b) Return to the United States.
(c) Get a job with "The London Times".
(d) Get a job and learn about printing.

8. While he was good at writing, Franklin failed math, so Josiah put him to work in what business he operated?
(a) Tanning.
(b) Baking.
(c) Blacksmith.
(d) Tallow-chandler and soap.

9. How did those individuals who found the library a popular hangout benefit?
(a) Minimally, as most had to work and few had time to read.
(b) Greatly, from exposure to books.
(c) Little, as there were no reading assignments.
(d) Minimally, as they were only passing through town.

10. When the House legalized paper tender, it awarded the contract to print the money to which printer?
(a) Keimer.
(b) Webb.
(c) Benjamin.
(d) Bradford.

11. Which three friends did Franklin spend his last months in Philadelphia with?
(a) Charles Osborne, Joseph Watson, James Ralph.
(b) Charles Osborne, James Watson, Joseph Ralph.
(c) Joseph Osborne, Charles Watson, James Ralph.
(d) Charles Osborne, Joseph Watson, Ralph James.

12. Franklin noted he was honest about his achievements without being falsely humble or arrogant and stipulated he would have changed some details to look better but did not for what reason?
(a) He lacked the writing talent.
(b) He wanted the truth known.
(c) He sought facts, not fiction.
(d) His life was too well known.

13. Who offered to outfit a print shop for Franklin?
(a) A co-worker's uncle.
(b) A co-worker's cousin.
(c) His father.
(d) A co-worker's father.

14. Franklin noted the oldest son being apprenticed in a smithing trade was a tradition that went how far back?
(a) 1,000 years.
(b) 300 years.
(c) 100 years.
(d) 500 years.

15. Josiah Franklin took his first wife and three children to America where they had how many more?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 10.

Short Answer Questions

1. What problem was it Josiah cited why Franklin could not set up his own print shop upon his return from Philadelphia?

2. Franklin's family had to hide their religion in England in what manner?

3. At age 12, Franklin was indentured to James, his older brother, until he was how old?

4. Upon Franklin's return to Philadelphia, where did the Governor of Pennsylvania send him to pick out his own printing equipment?

5. Franklin said his father was an "agreeable" man but very traditional, serious, and what else?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 599 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample