Quiz on Benjamin Franklin
1. “God help them that help themselves”is found in A ‘s work.
A.Franklin
B.Freneau
C.Jefferson
D.Paine
2. Which statement about Franklin is not true? D
A. He instructed his countrymen as a printer.
B. He was a scientist.
C. He was a master of diplomacy.
D. He was a Unitarian.
3. Poor Richard’s Almanac contained A.
A. many proverbs
B. Franklin’s autobiography
C. voyages to the new land
D. climate and crops
4. In his last years and for a generation after his death, _A__ was more often referred to as “the father of his country”than was George Washington himself
A. Benjamin Franklin
B. Washington Irving
C. Ralph Waldo Emerson
D. Nathaniel Hawthorne
5.__A ____ is outstanding as a tradesman, citizen, scientist, statesman and political revolutionary. He aided Jefferson in the writing of the Declaration of the Independence.
A. Benjamin Franklin
B. Washington Irving
C. Ralph Waldo Emerson
D. Nathaniel Hawthorne
6. Benjamin Franklin’s best writing is found in his masterpiece A .
A. Autobiography
B. Poor Richard’s Almanac
C. Common Sense
D. The Way to Wealth
7. Benjamin Franklin also edited the first colonial magazine, which he called C .
A. Time
B. People
C. the General Magazine
D. Redbook
8. If we say Jonathan Edwards represents the upper levels of the American mind, represents the lower levels. B
A. Thomas Paine
B. Benjamin Franklin
C. Philip Freneau
D. Washington Irving
Philip Freneau: “The Poet of American Revolution”.
9. The ideals of the American Enlightenment were exemplified in the life and career of B .
A. Thomas Hood
B. Benjamin Franklin
C. Thomas Jefferson
D. George Washington
10. Benjamin Franklin was the epitome(representative) of the A .
A. American Enlightenment
B. Sugar Act
C. Chartist Movement
D. Romanticist
11. Benjamin Franklin shaped his writing after the A of the English essayists Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.
A. Spectator Papers
B. Walden
C. Nature
D. The Sacred Wood
12. Benjamin Franklin was a prose stylist whose writing reflected the neoclassic ideal of D .
A. clarity
B. restraint
C. simplicity
D. all the above
13. Franklin’s claim to a place in literature rests chiefly on his A and A .
A. Poor Richard’s Almanac, Autobiography
B. Common Sense, American Crisis
C. The Wild Honeysuckle, The Indian Burying Ground
D. Rights of Man, The Age of Reason
Philip Freneau（1752-1832）美国殖民时期著名诗人，美国革命战争后期最杰出的作家。生于纽约一酒商家庭。1768
