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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the most important thing for people to not neglect as they enter adulthood, and, throughout their life?
(a) their religion
(b) their physical appearance
(c) their spiritual nature
(d) their own development

2. What makes the inevitable and natural experience of death easier according to Eleanor Roosevelt?
(a) belief in God
(b) a strong family
(c) good friends
(d) one's own inner calm

3. What does self-knowledge require?
(a) acceptance
(b) inner calm
(c) humility
(d) heroics

4. What example does Eleanor Roosevelt use as a way to describe how to accept others?
(a) husbands not helping with raising children
(b) husbands forgetting to clean up after themselves
(c) husbands not willing to cook and clean
(d) husbands forgetting birthdays and anniversaries

5. What does Eleanor Roosevelt say is necessary to accept if one is to obtain self-knowledge?
(a) one's own individuality
(b) one's own limitations
(c) one's own anger
(d) one's own pride

6. What does Eleanor Roosevelt say is necessary to accept in others?
(a) the weakness of others
(b) the limitations of others
(c) the hope in others
(d) the love in others

7. What is one thing that no human being can avoid, according to Eleanor Roosevelt?
(a) achieving their dreams
(b) making mistakes
(c) relying on the kindness of others
(d) being uncertain about life

8. According to Eleanor Roosevelt, what is the best way people learn?
(a) by mentorship
(b) by rigorous challenges
(c) through watching others fail
(d) through their own mistakes

9. What is the question that children most ask?
(a) where?
(b) when?
(c) how?
(d) why?

10. According to Ms. Roosevelt, what does meeting and overcoming an impossible situation teach people?
(a) they are judged by their actions
(b) they can live through anything
(c) they might sometimes fail
(d) they will always come out ahead

11. What does Ms. Roosevelt say is more important than experience, especially in children?
(a) stamina
(b) an open mind
(c) imagination
(d) a good heart

12. What is Eleanor Roosevelt's philosophy about how different things work for different people?
(a) Everyone can succeed
(b) Everyone is an individual
(c) Everyone deserves a second chance
(d) Everyone is cut from the same cloth

13. What journey does Eleanor Roosevelt describe as being one of great influences of her childhood?
(a) the journey to Italy
(b) the journey to Great Britain
(c) the journey to Washington, D.C.
(d) the journey to France

14. What does a mature person take and evaluate in order to better themselves?
(a) advice
(b) criticism
(c) self-knolwedge
(d) logic

15. From whom does Eleanor Roosevelt inherit her good will?
(a) her mentors
(b) her female friends
(c) her husband
(d) her children

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Eleanor Roosevelt's aunt, Mrs. Cowles, more unique than most adults?

2. Who raised Eleanor Roosevelt from the age of seven?

3. How does Eleanor Roosevelt overcome her fear of nearly everything as a timid child?

4. What does Eleanor Roosevelt think that trying to change someone does?

5. What does Eleanor Roosevelt claim she does not have in regards to life and living?

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