Which quote best shows Ben Franklin's enterprising personality?
Question 1 options:
"I kept my secret till my small fund of sense for such performances was pretty well exhausted and then I discovered it, when I began to be considered a little more by my brother's acquaintance, and in a manner that did not quite please him, as he thought, probably with reason, that it tended to make me too vain" (Franklin 25).
"I contrived to disguise my hand, and, writing an anonymous paper, I put it in at night under the door of the printing-house. It was found in the morning, and communicated to his writing friends when they called in as usual" (Franklin 25).
"At length, a fresh difference arising between my brother and me, I took upon me to assert my freedom, presuming that he would not venture to produce the new indentures" (Franklin 26).
"I entered upon the execution of this plan for self-examination and continued it with occasional intermissions for some time. I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of faults than I had imagined" (Franklin 30).
Question 2 (1 point)
How do the 13 Virtues relate to Franklin's purpose in writing his autobiography?
Question 2 options:
Franklin's purpose was to identify how humans can try to change, but ultimately remain the same people.
Franklin's purpose was to show individuals can improve themselves and the virtues are ways to accomplish this goal.
Franklin's purpose was to ensure that people stayed true to previous Puritan values during the Enlightenment period.
Franklin's purpose was to prove people were inherently bad, and these were 13 ways they could be good.
Question 3 (1 point)
Choose the quote that best demonstrates a Logical Appeal in "Common Sense".
Question 3 options:
"To be always running three or four thousand miles with a tale or a petition, waiting four or five months for an answer, which when obtained requires five or six more to explain it in, will in a few years be looked upon as folly and childishness" (Paine 37).
"...for I answer roundly, that America would have flourished as much, and probably much more, had no European power had anything to do with her" (Paine 36).
"Hath your property been destroyed before your face? Are your wife and children destitute of a bed to lie on, or bread to live on?" (Paine 37).
"I challenge the warmest advocate for reconciliation, to show a single advantage that this continent can reap, by being connected with Great Britain" (Paine 36).
Question 4 (1 point)
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Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine write for different purposes, but both writers __________.
Question 4 options:
show that humans can improve themselves and society.
feel the need to stay connected to England
inspire people to stay committed to the cause of American freedom.
describe episodes in their early lives.
Question 5 (1 point)
"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another…a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation" (Jefferson 43).
According to this sentence, what is the main purpose of the Declaration of Independence?
Question 5 options:
to convince people to think about the value of freedom
to outline the reasons to go to war with Great Britain
to make an official statement of separation from Great Britain
to outline the injustices suffered by the colonists
