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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Ch. 2, Fear-the Great Enemy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Eleanor Roosevelt claim she does not have in regards to life and living?
(a) prestige
(b) happiness
(c) coping skills
(d) all the answers

2. How does Eleanor Roosevelt overcome her fear of nearly everything as a timid child?
(a) through self-esteem
(b) through self-discipline
(c) through self-preservation
(d) through self-efficacy

3. What does Eleanor Roosevelt consider essential to keeping people feeling alive?
(a) passion
(b) adventure
(c) growth
(d) prosperity

4. Where does courage sometimes come from?
(a) sheer desperation in having to face the inevitable
(b) undeniable loneliness and hardship
(c) sheer exhaustion and abandonment
(d) sheer exasperation at the event that has occurred

5. What else do people need in conjunction with a book education?
(a) people need the stimulus of a heirarchy to climb
(b) people need to experience the kinesthetics of an event to fully understand
(c) people need to see examples for themselves
(d) people need the stimulus of the exchanging of ideas with others

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the people want to learn from Eleanor Roosevelt?

2. According to Eleanor's teacher, what must children do with the information they learn?

3. What type of book is "You Learn By Living"?

4. What is one thing that no human being can avoid, according to Eleanor Roosevelt?

5. What historical people does Eleanor Roosevelt compare the modern world to in regards to describing the irrationality of fear?

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