Ben's People
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one of the names from the list on the right.
* Score the quiz with the honor system. After testing yourself, click
on Notes to find the answer page.
* Use the answer page to guide your research, in the library or online.
Look for the names in the indexes of books. On search engines, enter "Benjamin
Franklin" plus the names.
1. Benjamin Franklin's
mother
2. Benjamin Franklin's father
3. Ben's older brother, who taught him to print
4. Author of Essays On Projects, a book that strongly influenced young
Franklin
5. Ben's first successful fictional character
6. Ben's wife, whom he married in 1730
7. Ben's oldest son, who remained a royalist
8. Ben's daughter Sally
9. The son Ben and his wife lost to smallpox
10. Poor fictional character who helped make Franklin rich
11. London friend to whom Franklin wrote about the kite experiment
12. British
general who probably lost his life because he didn't heed Franklin's warnings
about Indian attacks
13. Franklin's landlady in London
14. The landlady's daughter, a second daughter to Ben
15. English dictionary writer who answered Franklin with a pamphlet called
Taxation No Tyranny
16. Ben's fellow committee member who did most of the writing of the Declaration
of Independence
17. English scientist who Franklin persuaded to emigrate to the United
States
18. French nobleman and hero of American Revolution
19. Future president who quarreled with Franklin in Paris
20. Franklin protegé whose pamphlets inflamed worldwide revolution
Answers
John
Adams
Sarah Franklin Bache
Edward Braddock
Peter Collinwood
Daniel Defoe
Silence Dogood
Abiah
Folger
Francis Folger Franklin
James
Franklin
Josiah Franklin
William Franklin
Mary Stevenson Hewson
Thomas Jefferson
Samuel Johnson
Marquis de Lafayette
Thomas Paine
Joseph Priestley
Deborah Read
Richard Saunders
Margaret Stevenson
