Amazing Benjamin

Amazing Benjamin

by Joseph Manso

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How old was Ben when he wanted to be a fish?

• 10

• 11

• 1

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Benjamin wasn't on of the first American presidents. 

• True 

• False 

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In which bill did they print his picture?

• 100

• 50

• 200

• 20

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All of his life, Ben had an inquisitive mind, inquisitive means

• curious

• shy

• timid

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Where was Ben born?

• Boston

• 1706

• January

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Ben could go to school

• True

• False

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When did he start working at his father's store?

• 12 years old

• 10 years old

• 13 years old

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James was.....

• Ben's friend

• Ben's father

• Ben's brother

• Ben's owner

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Ben used to be a ....when he was 12 years old. 

• reader 

• writer 

• printer 

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Ben didn't enjoy his work.

• True

• False

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Since Ben could read many articles from famous writer, he tried to copy their....

• articles

• styles

• names 

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Why did Ben have to use a fake name to be able to publish his article? 

• His brother told him to do that. 

• HIs brother hated him

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When Ben was 17 years old....

• He became a printer 

• He worked for another printing company.

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When James found out about that, he got so...

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In Philadelphia, Ben started his own bussiness.

• True

• False

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Everybody could read by that time.

• True 

• False 

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To make all the readers to be able to read his newspaper, Ben...

• explained to them in person.

• printed animation to explain what the articles were about.

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In .........the United States had not been

formed.

• 1757

• 1754

• 1750

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Ben Franklin used this cartoon

to tell people that the ............... colonies

should join together.

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Ben never believed that people should always

do things for the good of others.

• True

• False

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How old was Ben when he formed a group in Philadelphia to make this place become better?

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How many people joined him?

• 12

• 1

• 2

• 10

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What was the group's name? 

• Junco

• Juno

• Junto

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What wasn't the thing that Ben and his mates founded. 

• cafeteria 

• library

• hospital

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Ben Franklin also created the first fire

brigade de in USA

• True 

• False 

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Why did Ben decide to found the Fire Brigade?

• Because he had a lot of money.

• Because it was easy for a many houses to be caught in fire there.

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Ben had not seen a Fire Brigade  before. 

• True 

• False 

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He set up the

.................Fire Company.

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What did not they buy to fight fires? 

• sugar

• pumps

• ladders

• buckets 

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Ben’s idea made the city...........

• unsafer

• safer

​Static electricity

can make your

hair stand on end!

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Since Ben's business  became more successful, 

• He opened more shops

• He paid mỏe attention to his pastime

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A friend gave him a present that...

• he threw away

• he sold it later

• changed human kind's world

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Choose which picture defines static electricity.

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Before Ben investigated about lightning, had people already known that lightning was a kind of electricity? 

• Yes

• No

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In 1752,  Ben did his experiment with a.......in a storming day. 

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He tied ..........to the end of the kite string.

• wire

• robe

• balloon

• key

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He place the wire into a.....to store static electricity.

• wire 

• vase

• jar

• bowl

​the air to the ground.

This invention is still

used today

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Ben knew that lightning....

• could not start fire 

• could start fire 

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This gave him an idea of designing a ............

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What material is a lightning rod made of?

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Where do they place the lightning rod?

• on the top

• below the ground

• in the river

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Where does the lightning rod take the lightning to? 

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We no longer use his invention nowadays

• True 

• False 

Ben Franklin worked to help people

his whole life. Although he lived over 200 years ago, there are still no substitutes for some of his inventions.

Ben Franklin was never short of ideas and he used his ideas to solve many

problems. Even today, his clever inventions

are still with us.

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Nowadays there are plenty of new inventions that have already replaced in inventions.

• True 

• False 

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" Bank had never been short of ideas. " it means.......

• His ideas were short.

• He had plenty of ideas.