Questions:
1. What did Benjamin do to keep his mind busy? (1 Mark)

Benjamin kept his mind busy, by working on his family's 100 ache farm land. Some of what Benjamin did was planted the tobacco plants, weeded the tobacco plants and watered them. He also kept himself busy by making up math puzzles in his mind to tell to the people of the village

2. How old was Benjamin in 1751? (1 Mark)
In 1751 Benjamin Benneky was 20 years of age.

3. What made Benjamin’s heart jump like a rabbit? (1 Mark)
T he thing that made Benjamin's heart jump was to see someone at the store he went too to get a bolt of white cloth for his mother, so she can make him a new shirt. He saw the man near the salt barrel and talked about his watch, the man let him barrow it for a week and he fitted with it.

4. What did Benjamin do with the watch when he got home? (2 Marks)
Benjamin when he arrived at his home he first finished his supper then proceeded to take the watch and carefully toke apart the watch and sketched a drawing of each part
then at the end of the week he put it back together and returned it to the man

5. How many years after Benjamin borrowed the gold watch did it take for him to make all the pieces and put them back together again? (1 Mark)
It toke Benjamin exectly two years to reconsturct the watch out of wood and some metal brass parts he got from the blacksmith. It attracted people from all over the village and beyond to see his invention, but unfortuenty for Benjamin his father fell ill so he had almost no time to talk about his watch to the people who wanted to see it.

Words and defintions

. Almanac - an annual publication containing a calendar for the coming year, the times of such events and phenomena as anniversaries, sunrises and sunsets, phases of the moon, tides, etc., and other statistical information and related topics.

2. Tobacco - any of several plants belonging to the genus Nicotiana, used for chewing and smoking.

3. Caterpillars - the wormlike larva of a butterfly or a moth.

4. Different - not alike in character or quality; differing; dissimilar: The two are different.

5. Acre - a common variable unit of land measure.

6. Figure - an amount or value expressed in numbers.

7. Valley - an extensive, more or less flat, and relatively low region drained by a great river system.

8. Clothes - garments for the body; articles of dress; wearing apparel.

9. Thought - the product of mental activity; that which one thinks: a body of thought.

10. Enough - adequate for the want or need; sufficient for the purpose or to satisfy desire: enough water; noise enough to wake the dead.