From the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

In what virtue did Franklin hope to achieve by planning each day's activities?

• Franklin hoped to achieve FRUGALITY

• Franklin hoped to achieve ORDER

• Franklin hoped to achieve TEMPERANCE

• Franklin hoped to achieve SILENCE

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What was Franklin's rule for becoming virtuous?

• master ONE virtue at a time

• master ALL virtue at a time

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Which virtue was the most difficult to achieve for Franklin?

• TEMPERANCE

• SILENCE

• ORDER

• RESOLUTION

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What reason did Franklin have for placing Temperance first?

• He hoped to achieved the most difficult goal first.

• Mastering it would make the others easier to achieve.

• Since it was mentioned by other writers it must be most important.

• Temperance was the virtue he valued most.

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Why did Franklin make a book with a chart for each of the virtues?

• To keep track of how well he was doing

• To share the information with the people he knew

• Because his friends Pythagoras told him to do it

• He preferred thinking in visual terms

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What dis Franklin think of the endeavor, once he realized he would not achieve his original goals?

• He believed the endeavor had been a waste of time and nothing had been gained.

• He decided his ideas about reason and order were probably wrong.

• He was better and happier that he would have been if he hadn't tried

• He believed he was a worse man than he had been when he started out.

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Franklin believed in thirteen virtues that he believed where necessary and desirable.

• True

• False

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Which one of these is NOT a virtue that Franklin upheld:

• Sincerity

• Peace

• Order

• Industry

Vocabulary: incapable of being reformed or corrected

• artifice

• felicity

• incorrigible

• eradicate

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Vocabulary: tear up by the roots; eliminate

• artifice

• felicity

• incorrigible

• eradicate

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