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Serialized
Story Guide for Teachers, Students and Families
By Antonette
Bomentre-Walter and Chris Yatchyshyn
Answers
to Questions in the Guide
Chapter 2 - A Fresh Start
in America
Recalling the Facts
1. Atlantic
2. Delaware
3. Benjamin Franklin
4. clerk, assistant tutor,
assistant surveyor
5. bookshop
6. Pennsylvania Magazine
7. King George III
8. read
Comprehension Questions
1.
In November into the Philadelphia Harbor; sick
with cabin fever.
2.
A letter of introduction from Philadelphia's
best-known citizen, Dr. Benjamin Franklin.
3.
The Philadelphia bookshop owned by John Aiken; he
was a writer looking for work.
4.
He loved his father's bookshop and liked to find
a book to read.
5.
The circulation increased from 600 to 1,500
because his writing attracted Philadelphia
readers with his stories about nature, science,
slavery, capital punishment, health and even the
weather.
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