2nd-9 4W Benjamin Franklin Quiz

What is Benjamin Franklin most remembered for in America?

• Being an inventor and scientist

• Being a politician and diplomat

• Flying kites and storms

• Writing folksy witticisms

What did D.H. Lawrence think of Benjamin Franklin?

• He thought he was a great inventor

• He praised his political achievements

• He admired him as a man of science

• He considered him a hypocrite and fraud

What did Max Weber think of Benjamin Franklin?

• He thought he was a great statesman

• He admired him as a man of letters

• He praised his philanthropy and inventions

• He considered him the embodiment of everything despicable in the American character and capitalist system

What did Benjamin Franklin's autobiography tell?

• A rags to riches tale truer to the American dream than that of Horatio Alger

• A history of the American Revolution

• A story of his scientific discoveries

• A collection of his famous sayings

What was Benjamin Franklin's occupation before becoming a printer?

• Dyer

• Soap boiler

• Minister

• Candlemaker

What was the name of the newspaper Benjamin Franklin founded?

• The Pennsylvania Gazette

• The New England Courant

• The Spectator

• Poor Richard's Almanac

What was the subject of Poor Richard's Almanac?

• Recipes and weather forecasts

• Calendar lists and lunar charts

• Stories and poems

• Proverbs and bits of wisdom

What did Benjamin Franklin found with the Junto Club?

• Philadelphia's first hospital

• The University of Pennsylvania

• Philadelphia's first police force

• The first fire insurance company

What did Benjamin Franklin invent that is still used today?

• The electrostatic machine

• The glass harmonica

• The lightning rod

• The Franklin stove

What did Benjamin Franklin discover about lightning?

• It was a natural phenomenon

• It was a punishment from God

• It was a form of energy

• It was caused by static electricity