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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Elliot Roosevelt die of?

3. Where would Franklin invite Eleanor to visit on weekends?

4. What was the Consumer's League focused on?

5. What does Freedman say the Secret Service gave Eleanor Roosevelt?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Freedman say Eleanor Roosevelt asserted her independence as First Lady?

2. What does Freedman say Eleanor Roosevelt felt when her husband was running for President?

3. How did Franklin Roosevelt's mother react to news of the engagement?

4. How did the role of First Lady change Eleanor Roosevelt?

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

6. Describe Eleanor Roosevelt's entrance into charity work.

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

8. What deaths did Eleanor Roosevelt encounter as a childhood?

9. What was Mlle. Souvestre's role in Eleanor Roosevelt's life?

10. Describe Eleanor Roosevelt's family background.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the difference between Eleanor Roosevelt as a daughter and Eleanor Roosevelt as a mother. What changed in the interval? How did she alter the course of her family in the children she raised?

Essay Topic 2

How did Eleanor Roosevelt develop as a public speaker, and how did her personality change as she became more comfortable in front of crowds?

Essay Topic 3

How has feminism changed since Eleanor Roosevelt? How does modern feminism bear the imprint of Eleanor Roosevelt's work in the 1920s and 1930s?

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