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What character trait of Franklin's is best illustrated by his anecdote about the stolen stones used to build a wharf?
- seriousness
- leadership
- sarcasm
- wit
The anecdote about the stolen stones illustrates how Franklin naturally assumes a leadership role when he sees an opportunity to accomplish something he considers important.
The anecdote about the stolen stones illustrates how Franklin naturally assumes a leadership role when he sees an opportunity to accomplish something he considers important.
The anecdote about the stolen stones illustrates how Franklin naturally assumes a leadership role when he sees an opportunity to accomplish something he considers important.
The anecdote about the stolen stones illustrates how Franklin naturally assumes a leadership role when he sees an opportunity to accomplish something he considers important.
How is the kind of person described in Franklin's letters similar to Benjamin Franklin himself?
- He was born with few advantages yet achieved great success.
- He didn't have any formal education yet learned a trade.
- He had unrealistic expectations for life in North America.
- He wished that he had been born into nobility.
With little formal education, Franklin became a wealthy, influential, and highly respected statesman and man of letters.
With little formal education, Franklin became a wealthy, influential, and highly respected statesman and man of letters.
With little formal education, Franklin became a wealthy, influential, and highly respected statesman and man of letters.
With little formal education, Franklin became a wealthy, influential, and highly respected statesman and man of letters.
Read this passage from Benjamin Franklin's "Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America."
Having frequent occasions to hold public councils, they have acquired great order and decency in conducting them. The old men sit in the foremost ranks, the warriors in the next, and the women and children in the hindmost. The business of the women is to take exact notice of what passes, imprint it in their memories, for they have no writing, and communicate it to their children. They are the records of the council, and they preserve traditions of the stipulations in treaties a hundred years back, which when we compare with our writings we always find exact. He that would speak, rises. The rest observe a profound silence. When he has finished and sits down, they leave him five or six minutes to recollect, that if he has omitted anything he intended to say, or has anything to add, he may rise again and deliver it. To interrupt another, even in common conversation, is reckoned highly indecent.
How different this is from the conduct of a polite British House of Commons, where scarce a day passes without some confusion, that makes the speaker hoarse in calling to order; and how different from the mode of conversation in many polite companies of Europe, where if you do not deliver your sentence with great rapidity, you are cut off in the middle of it by the impatient loquacity of those you converse with, and never suffer'd to finish it.
What main point does Franklin make?
- Native Americans' council meetings are modeled after the practices of the British House of Commons.
- Native Americans' council meetings are more orderly and polite than meetings of the British government.
- Orderliness and politeness are not necessarily civilized.
- British politicians should learn from Native American elders.
Franklin's point is that the so-called "savages" are in some ways more civilized than the British.
Franklin's point is that the so-called "savages" are in some ways more civilized than the British.
Franklin's point is that the so-called "savages" are in some ways more civilized than the British.
Franklin's point is that the so-called "savages" are in some ways more civilized than the British.
Read this passage from Benjamin Franklin's "Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America."
Having frequent occasions to hold public councils, they have acquired great order and decency in conducting them. The old men sit in the foremost ranks, the warriors in the next, and the women and children in the hindmost. The business of the women is to take exact notice of what passes, imprint it in their memories, for they have no writing, and communicate it to their children. They are the records of the council, and they preserve traditions of the stipulations in treaties a hundred years back, which when we compare with our writings we always find exact. He that would speak, rises. The rest observe a profound silence. When he has finished and sits down, they leave him five or six minutes to recollect, that if he has omitted anything he intended to say, or has anything to add, he may rise again and deliver it. To interrupt another, even in common conversation, is reckoned highly indecent.
How different this is from the conduct of a polite British House of Commons, where scarce a day passes without some confusion, that makes the speaker hoarse in calling to order; and how different from the mode of conversation in many polite companies of Europe, where if you do not deliver your sentence with great rapidity, you are cut off in the middle of it by the impatient loquacity of those you converse with, and never suffer'd to finish it.
What organizational pattern does Franklin use in these paragraphs?
- general to specific
- cause and effect
- problem-solution
- compare and contrast
Franklin compares and contrasts the practices of the "savages" with those of British politicians.
Franklin compares and contrasts the practices of the "savages" with those of British politicians.
Franklin compares and contrasts the practices of the "savages" with those of British politicians.
Franklin compares and contrasts the practices of the "savages" with those of British politicians.
Read this passage from Benjamin Franklin's "Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America."
Having frequent occasions to hold public councils, they have acquired great order and decency in conducting them. The old men sit in the foremost ranks, the warriors in the next, and the women and children in the hindmost. The business of the women is to take exact notice of what passes, imprint it in their memories, for they have no writing, and communicate it to their children. They are the records of the council, and they preserve traditions of the stipulations in treaties a hundred years back, which when we compare with our writings we always find exact. He that would speak, rises. The rest observe a profound silence. When he has finished and sits down, they leave him five or six minutes to recollect, that if he has omitted anything he intended to say, or has anything to add, he may rise again and deliver it. To interrupt another, even in common conversation, is reckoned highly indecent.
How different this is from the conduct of a polite British House of Commons, where scarce a day passes without some confusion, that makes the speaker hoarse in calling to order; and how different from the mode of conversation in many polite companies of Europe, where if you do not deliver your sentence with great rapidity, you are cut off in the middle of it by the impatient loquacity of those you converse with, and never suffer'd to finish it.
What tone does the passage above have in common with Franklin's thoughts on "the American Dream"?
- silliness
- anger
- sarcasm
- sadness
Franklin uses subtle sarcasm to criticize the notion that Native American societies are less civilized than the British.
Franklin uses subtle sarcasm to criticize the notion that Native American societies are less civilized than the British.
Franklin uses subtle sarcasm to criticize the notion that Native American societies are less civilized than the British.
Franklin uses subtle sarcasm to criticize the notion that Native American societies are less civilized than the British.
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