Now & Ben

1.

10 points

How are today's rocking chairs different from Ben Franklin's rocking chairs?

Today's rocking chairs have fans on top.

Today's rocking chairs do not churn butter.

Today's rocking chairs are used as stepladders.

Today's rocking chairs do not move back and forth.

2.

10 points

Ben Franklin changed his community by--

making the plans for a city park

helping to set up the first library

opening a school

building the first mall

3.

10 points

What change did Ben Franklin bring to newspapers?

He wrote them by hand.

He started printing them on paper.

He added photographs.

He added political cartoons.

4.

10 points

How did lightning rods change communities?

They made electric lights possible.

They made it safe to fly kites in storms.

They made homes and buildings safer.

They kept streets cleaner by attracting metal.

5.

10 points

How were Ben's flippers different from today's flippers?

They were made of wax.

They were not used in water.

They did not float.

They were made of wood.

6.

10 points

Which of Franklin's inventions was similar to today's Grabber?

The Long Arm

The glass armonica

The lightning rod

The political cartoon

7.

10 points

Which words from the story best explain what the glass armonica is?

Mozart and Beethoven were so moved by the sounds

more likely to find one in a museum

glass armonicas are very rare

a row of spinning glass bowls

8.

10 points

What is one way that ideas have changed since Ben Franklin's time?

People now understand electricity and know how to use it.

People now know that there is no electricity in lightning.

People now use kites to gather electricity from storm clouds.

People now know that lightning is not dangerous.

9.

10 points

How is daylight saving time different from standard time?

During daylight saving time, people use more candles.

During daylight saving time, it gets light earlier in the morning.

During daylight saving time, it stays light longer in the evening.

During daylight saving time, people sleep more.

10.

10 points

How are the writing chair and the library chair alike?

Both are ideas that were never really used.

Both are used to reach high places.

Both combine two things into one.

Both have desks built into them.