A Great American Story 27

Benjamin Franklin started printing the magazine that became the?

• Saturday Evening Post

• Poor Richard's Almanac

• The Declaration of Independence

His Poor Richard's Almanac contains many of his …

• wise sayings

• scientific experiments

• inventions

Benjamin Franklin learned about electricity by flying a kite?.

• during a thunderstorm

• in a laboratory

• in a storm

Benjamin Franklin was called a? who served his country well.

• scientist

• patriot

• inventor

When Benjamin Franklin first lived in Pennsylvania, it was?.

• a British colony

• a free state

• a territory

Benjamin Franklin invented?.

• bifocals

• the lightning rod

• the Franklin stove

Besides working for the colonies in America, Benjamin Franklin represented them in?.

• Europe

• Asia

• Africa

Benjamin Franklin helped to write ?.

• the Constitution

• the Declaration of Independence

• the Bill of Rights

An admirer of the evangelist George Whitefield, Benjamin Franklin helped to erect for him a?.

• building to preach in

• school

• library

Benjamin Franklin influenced our country.

• in many different ways

• only through inventions

• by writing books