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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As Franklin was readying to leave, Lord Loudoun arrived from England and said he had been sent to settle matters so who would not be bothered?
(a) The Parliment.
(b) The Royal Court.
(c) The Royal Council.
(d) The King.

2. Franklin established a militia to protect the English colonies from who?
(a) Spanish, French.
(b) Germans, French.
(c) Spanish, Germans.
(d) French, Indians.

3. What did Franklin institute using the building that Mr. Whitefield built?
(a) City prison.
(b) Public hospital.
(c) Public orphanage.
(d) Public school system.

4. As Franklin's men were leaving this area, how many farmers approached them and asked for guns for protection?
(a) 22.
(b) Several dozen.
(c) 11.
(d) 16.

5. Why was England increasingly suspicious of the colonies' intentions, especially when Franklin was escorted to a ferry by an honor guard?
(a) This was only seen in royalty.
(b) They were distrusting of this pomp.
(c) Franklin was the representative who appeared before the King's court.
(d) They viewed such activities being reserved for the British, not colonists.

6. When the colonial military group arrived in these territories, however, they found what?
(a) They were returning to the colonies for the most part.
(b) They were nearly eliminated.
(c) They had already set up a defense system.
(d) They were having problems with only a few Indian tribes.

7. There was soon much frustration between the Assembly and the governor, so Franklin was sent to England to appeal about what?
(a) Who was in charge.
(b) What laws applied to the colonies.
(c) What rights the colonists had.
(d) If they would replace the governor.

8. What languages did Franklin learn during his lifetime?
(a) French, Italian, Dutch.
(b) German, Italian, Spanish.
(c) French, Italian, Spanish.
(d) French,Russian, Spanish.

9. Who did Mr. Whitefield set up an orphanage for in Georgia?
(a) Children whose Christian parents died.
(b) Any children whose parents died.
(c) Children of the poor whose parents died.
(d) Children whose indentured servant parents died.

10. Braddock and the troops were sent for what two reasons?
(a) Defense and to keep the colonies in line.
(b) Occupation, keeping the colonies in line.
(c) Offense and to keep the colonies in line.
(d) Defense and to assist the colonies.

11. What did the governor argue before Loudoun?
(a) His authority came from England, the most important nation.
(b) The colonists rights were limited to landownership, religion, education.
(c) He was given specific duties, the Assembly must obey him.
(d) He was given specific duties, the colonists have no rights.

12. What was the crown's response to the American proposal?
(a) They rejected the plan and proposed an army paid by a special tax.
(b) They rejected the plan and sent an army to take over.
(c) They modified the plan and proposed a president that answered to the crown.
(d) They accepted the plan if Americans paid a special tax for an army.

13. Franklin's son died of smallpox at what age?
(a) 6.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 8.

14. The British troops' march was disastrous and most of the men were killed or wounded, and the rest fled back where?
(a) Boston.
(b) Baltimore.
(c) New York.
(d) Philadelphia.

15. What happened upon this trip in England to represent the colonists that Franklin recorded in his autobiography?
(a) His discussions with the Queen.
(b) His discussions with English officials.
(c) Nothing.
(d) His discussions with the King.

Short Answer Questions

1. Franklin became the Postmaster and had the opportunity to do what?

2. Franklin assisted the postmaster of Philadelphia, a position that did what?

3. The president would confer with a council representing which group?

4. Mr. Whitefield was from which locale?

5. Franklin wrote the Almanac to provide what?

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