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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Scene 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do FDR and Jimmy do immediately before dinner in Act 1, Scene 1?
(a) Play cards.
(b) Race.
(c) Arm wrestle.
(d) Read a newspaper article.

2. Why can't FDR wear his leg braces?
(a) They are painful.
(b) One of the straps is broken.
(c) They don't fit under his trousers.
(d) They don't fit.

3. What does Anna complain about in Act 2, Scene 2?
(a) Her old coat.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her room.
(d) The temperature of the soup.

4. Why does FDR practice crawling?
(a) He is tired of relying on others.
(b) He is bored.
(c) It is the fastest way for him to move.
(d) He fears being trapped by a house fire.

5. In Act 1, Scene 1, what does the Roosevelt family decide to do after dinner?
(a) Read one of Ibsen's plays.
(b) Re-enact "Green Grow the Lilacs."
(c) Read the play "Julius Caesar."
(d) Sing songs from "Show Boat."

Short Answer Questions

1. How are Eleanor and the children leaving Campobello?

2. What does Eleanor not want her children to see?

3. Why does Mr. Howe leave the house in Act 2, Scene 2?

4. Why isn't there a phone in the house?

5. In Act 2, Scene 1, how does FDR retrieve stamps that have fallen on the floor?

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