Informational Text Practice

Read the paragraph on the next slide. Then answer the multiple choice questions that follow.

“The Whistle” is a letter written by Ben Franklin in 1779. In this correspondence, Franklin reflects on lessons learned from a negative childhood experience, and offers a friend advice.

Yet I ought to have charity for these unhappy people, when I consider that, with all this wisdom of which I am boasting, there are certain things in the world so tempting, for example, the apples of King John, which happily are not to be bought; for if they were put to sale by auction, I might very easily be led to ruin myself in the purchase, and find that I had once more given too much for the whistle.