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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are many people afraid to use in their own lives that might truly benefit them and their personal dreams?
(a) their skills
(b) their confidence
(c) their capabilities
(d) their talents

2. What must the foreign doctor Eleanor Roosevelt speaks of do upon immigration to the United States?
(a) work for the government
(b) lose his religion
(c) restudy medicine
(d) leave his family behind

3. What does Eleanor Roosevelt say is the most influential factor in her life?
(a) an incessant determination to achieve
(b) a drive to affect change on a political level
(c) an avid desire to experience all she could deeply
(d) a desire to be the best

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

5. What languages does Eleanor Roosevelt study as a small child?
(a) Russian and French
(b) Latin and Spanish
(c) Latin and French
(d) German and Latin

Short Answer Questions

1. What do many people fear in regards to the world at large?

2. What do many American businessmen do which alienates their wives and denies their children of a relationship with their father?

3. What does Eleanor Roosevelt consider essential to keeping people feeling alive?

4. What two types of trips does Eleanor Roosevelt make?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the question "why"? so important?

2. What does Eleanor Roosevelt describe as the best years of a woman's life and what is her example?

3. Describe what the book provides for the individual reader?

4. How does Eleanor Roosevelt view retirement?

5. What is the third tip and example that Eleanor Roosevelt gives about using time wisely?

6. What is Eleanor Roosevelt's first tip on how to use time wisely and what is the example that she uses to illustrate her point?

7. According to Eleanor Roosevelt, why do most people fear self-knolwedge?

8. in what way does Eleanor Roosevelt revise her definition of maturity?

9. What does Eleanor Roosevelt say is necessary to accept in oneself and in others in order to grow into a mature individual?

10. According to Eleanor Roosevelt, why do women have an advantage over men?

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