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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. Where did Eleanor teach for a short while?

2. What happened to Franklin in August 1921?

3. Where did the Franklins spend Sunday evenings?

4. What sort of problem did Elliott Roosevelt have?

5. Why did the Roosevelt family begin to spend summers in Florida?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Eleanor's increasing independence in Chapter 8.

2. How did the structure of social life change when the United States entered WWI?

3. Eleanor's role as a mother and wife changed a bit during WWI. What did she see as her main duties?

4. What was Eleanor like in large groups as a teenager?

5. How was Eleanor introduced to politics? What was her attitude toward them at first?

6. How did the relationship between Eleanor and Franklin evolve?

7. How did Eleanor's relationship with her mother-in-law change in Chapter 11?

8. What was Eleanor's description of when Franklin won the presidential election?

9. What view did Eleanor have of World War I? How do readers know?

10. Rather than being in public office throughout most of the 1920's, what was Franklin doing instead?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why did Eleanor include foreshadowing in Chapter 11? What did Eleanor indicate by telling readers about Franklin's illness? Based on prior knowledge of Franklin's life, did you anticipate what the chapter ended up revealing?

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast Eleanor and Franklin. How were they different? How were they the same?

Essay Topic 3

How did certain events in Eleanor's book evoke a climatic feeling? What is it about Franklin's death that evokes a sense of climax? Does it have anything to do with anticipation or what you already knew before you read Eleanor's book?

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