1. When did Franklin first attend to electricity?
2. Relate the substance of the second paragraph.
3. From what is the word electricity derived? What is amber? Where is it found?
4. When was the subject first examined by modern philosophers?
5. What did Mr. Collinson send to Philadelphia?
7. When did Franklin first suggest that electricity and lightning were the same?
8. How did he propose to prove the truth of his doctrine? When did he prove it by actual experiment?
9. What plans had he at first proposed? What occurred to him afterwards?
10. How did he prepare the kite?
11. Relate the progress of the experiment.