In your initial comment, answer each of the following questions in at least 100 words. Address each of the following: 1. What does Franklin’s Autobiography suggest were the major forces shaping life and opportunities in the American colonies in the eighteenth century? 2. What motivated Franklin? To what did he attribute his personal successes and failures? Were there influences upon his life that Franklin does not recognize or acknowledge? 3. What appears to have been Franklin’s purpose in writing his Autobiography? Does his life offer an example others might emulate? Why or why not? 4. Was Franklin a rebel or a reformer? Why or why not? 5. Does his Autobiography suggest Franklin was a religious person? A moral person? (Is there a difference between the two?) What values did he embrace in theory? In reality? 6. Choose one word to complete the following sentence: “Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography reveals that he was the quintessential American because he was _____.” What word did you choose, and why?