Benjamin Franklin: Citizen of the World 1. Franklin was all of the following EXCEPT a. statesman b. ambassador c. printer d. soap maker. 2. He was a man of a. letters b. science c. philanthropy d. all of the above. 3. Franklin was born ina Boston, one of many children b. London before immigrating with his family at the age of six c. New York, before it was any larger than a village d. Hartford, Connecticut, on the edge of the city in frontier area. 4. Franklin's father wanted him to be a a. politician b. soldier c. minister d. poet. 5. His first writings to be published were published under the pen name a. Whit Whittiker b. a gossipy widow woman Silence Dogood c. an ignorant young man d. the governor of the state. 6. His first place to sleep in Philadelphia was a. under a wharf b. in a Quaker meeting house c. at his future wife's father's house d. the back room of a bake shop. 7. One of his first successes was as a. a printer who had his own press which published the first novel in America, the first medical treatise in America, and paper currency b. the creator of a funeral home c. a hawker who traveled up and down the streets of America calling out sales at local stores d. a banker. 8. He began something called a Junto club with purpose of a. agricultural advances b. monitoring banking trends c. intellectual and scientific reading and discussions d. religious meetings. 9. He filled extra space in his renowned Poor Richard's Almanack with all of the following EXCEPT: a. homespun wisdom b. proverbs c. Bible verses d. parables. 10. When Franklin saw a need, he began a community facility to meet it, such as a. the police force and fire station b. a hospital c. the University of Pennsylvania d. all of the above. 11. His inventions included all of the following EXCEPT: a. the Franklin stove b. a glass harmonica c. the lightening rod d. penicillin. 12. One of his greatest areas of scientific experiment involved a. amoeba b. a kite c. water d. a host of petri dishes. 13. His first overseas trip a. turned into 7 years in London b. garnered aid from the Italians for war c. was to sell a new printing method d. was as ambassador to the French Parliament to present petition for democracy there and in the Americas. 14. Franklin argued against what Act in Great Britain? a. tea party riots b. the Stamp Act c. colle of the Americas tax d. Foreign Abuse Lamentation. 15. One of Franklin's most important roles in beginning the early stages of the Revolutionary W: involved a. the slave trade b. controversy over letters from a man named Hutchinson c. his overage in printing of money d. his fervent petitions to George Washington. 6. The committee which created the Declaration of Independence a. had 10 secret members ne revealed b. wanted Franklin's input, but he had left for France c. included five men, one of whom was Franklin d. was headed by James Madison with Franklin's support. 7. As an individual in France, Franklin was known as a. a doctor b. an irresponsible scalawag popular man greatly Joved by all of society d an anta

Benjamin Franklin: Citizen of the World 1. Franklin was all of the following EXCEPT a. statesman b. ambassador c. printer d. soap maker. 2. He was a man of a. letters b. science c. philanthropy d. all of the above. 3. Franklin was born ina Boston, one of many children b. London before immigrating with his family at the age of six c. New York, before it was any larger than a village d. Hartford, Connecticut, on the edge of the city in frontier area. 4. Franklin's father wanted him to be a a. politician b. soldier c. minister d. poet. 5. His first writings to be published were published under the pen name a. Whit Whittiker b. a gossipy widow woman Silence Dogood c. an ignorant young man d. the governor of the state. 6. His first place to sleep in Philadelphia was a. under a wharf b. in a Quaker meeting house c. at his future wife's father's house d. the back room of a bake shop. 7. One of his first successes was as a. a printer who had his own press which published the first novel in America, the first medical treatise in America, and paper currency b. the creator of a funeral home c. a hawker who traveled up and down the streets of America calling out sales at local stores d. a banker. 8. He began something called a Junto club with purpose of a. agricultural advances b. monitoring banking trends c. intellectual and scientific reading and discussions d. religious meetings. 9. He filled extra space in his renowned Poor Richard's Almanack with all of the following EXCEPT: a. homespun wisdom b. proverbs c. Bible verses d. parables. 10. When Franklin saw a need, he began a community facility to meet it, such as a. the police force and fire station b. a hospital c. the University of Pennsylvania d. all of the above. 11. His inventions included all of the following EXCEPT: a. the Franklin stove b. a glass harmonica c. the lightening rod d. penicillin. 12. One of his greatest areas of scientific experiment involved a. amoeba b. a kite c. water d. a host of petri dishes. 13. His first overseas trip a. turned into 7 years in London b. garnered aid from the Italians for war c. was to sell a new printing method d. was as ambassador to the French Parliament to present petition for democracy there and in the Americas. 14. Franklin argued against what Act in Great Britain? a. tea party riots b. the Stamp Act c. colle of the Americas tax d. Foreign Abuse Lamentation. 15. One of Franklin's most important roles in beginning the early stages of the Revolutionary W: involved a. the slave trade b. controversy over letters from a man named Hutchinson c. his overage in printing of money d. his fervent petitions to George Washington. 6. The committee which created the Declaration of Independence a. had 10 secret members ne revealed b. wanted Franklin's input, but he had left for France c. included five men, one of whom was Franklin d. was headed by James Madison with Franklin's support. 7. As an individual in France, Franklin was known as a. a doctor b. an irresponsible scalawag popular man greatly Joved by all of society d an anta