Ben Franklin Practice Quiz

Based on paragraph one, what does Ben Franklin decide to do?

• a.start a company that will make sure people become morally perfect

• quit worrying about doing everything exactly the right way

• a.create a plan for acting morally perfect by breaking bad habits and creating good habits

• a.avoid slipping by being on guard against the dangers around him

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To help himself live a morally perfect life, Franklin…

• creates a list of all the virtues he wants to put in to practice.

• decides that he must read books written by Jesus and Socrates.

• decides that he should no longer have any ambition.

• avoids being concerned about whether he is clean or not.

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How does Franklin make a habit of the virtues on his list?

• by focusing on the most difficult virtues first

• by practicing them all at once

• by starting with the virtues that are easiest

• by putting them into practice one at a time

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Franklin uses a book to…

• keep track of his success in following his virtues.

• remind himself to be a good person.

• read about people who lived moral lives.

• study how to get rid of all the bad plants in a garden.

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PART A: What does the word temperance mean as it is used in the text? (First paragraph on page 2)

• Alertness

• Gentleness

• Self-restraint

• Responsibility

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PART B: What phrase from the text best supports the answer to Part A?

• “by some confined to eating and drinking” (Paragraph 2).

• "the moderating of every other pleasure” (Paragraph 2).

• "A.to procure that coolness and clearness of head” (Paragraph 3).

• “Constant vigilance was to be kept up” (Paragraph 3).

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PART A: Which of the following statements best identifies a central idea of this essay?

• It is best to focus on acquiring one virtue at a time.

• It is too difficult to change one’s identity to bother trying.

• Philosophers in the past have provided too many virtues to live by.

• Franklin failed in his task because he tried to train too many virtues.

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Which phrase from the text best supports the answer to Part A?

• “I concluded, at length, that the mere speculative conviction that it was our interest to be completely virtuous, was not sufficient to prevent our slipping; and that the contrary habits must be broken, and good ones acquired and established, before we can have any dependence on a steady, uniform rectitude of conduct.” (Paragraph 1)

• I propos'd to myself, for the sake of clearness, to use rather more names, with fewer ideas annex'd to each, than a few names with more ideas;” (Paragraph 2)

• "I might mark, by a little black spot, every fault I found upon examination to have been committed” (Paragraph 4)

• "I suppos'd the habit of that virtue so much strengthen'd and its opposite weaken'd, that I might venture extending my attention to include the next, and for the following week keep both lines clear of spots.” (Paragraph 5)

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