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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the Junior League's purpose?
(a) To help the needy.
(b) To educate workers.
(c) To raise money for political parties.
(d) To organize the poor politically.

2. What kind of gathering was Eleanor Roosevelt a frequent attendant at after her return to the U.S.?
(a) Political rally.
(b) Dinner party.
(c) Lynching.
(d) Hunting party.

3. Who was Eleanor Roosevelt secretly engaged to at nineteen?
(a) A working boy.
(b) A boy from the Junior League.
(c) A Harvard boy.
(d) A cousin.

4. What does Freedman say Eleanor Roosevelt did about this feeling?
(a) Argued fiercely.
(b) Argued fiercely.
(c) Kept silent.
(d) Talked herself out of it.

5. What misfortune struck Eleanor Roosevelt at age ten?
(a) Polio.
(b) Her parents died.
(c) Her sister died.
(d) A farm accident.

Short Answer Questions

1. When were Eleanor Roosevelt's parents' married?

2. What does Freedman say were Eleanor Roosevelt's feelings about her father?

3. What did Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt do at the Harvard-Yale game?

4. What was Sara Roosevelt's response to Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt's engagement?

5. What is NOT an innovation Freedman credits Eleanor Roosevelt with?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the Secret Service's problem with Eleanor Roosevelt?

2. What was Franklin Roosevelt's next step in politics?

3. Describe Eleanor's relationship with Sarah Roosevelt.

4. What was Eleanor Roosevelt's childhood nickname?

5. Describe Eleanor Roosevelt's first engagement.

6. Why wasn't Eleanor Roosevelt looking forward to her coming out?

7. Describe the scene when Franklin Roosevelt proposed to Eleanor.

8. How does Freedman say Eleanor Roosevelt reacted to her father's death?

9. What does Freedman tell us, in the opening chapter, about Eleanor Roosevelt's childhood?

10. How does Freedman characterize the difference between Eleanor and Franklin's personalities?

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