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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. How does Eleanor Roosevelt's mother's cousin react after her husband's death?
2. What must a public servant have the elasticity and flexibility of mind to face?
3. What do young people most believe in?
4. What skill is important to teach children at an early age?
5. What type of behavior is surprisingly less proportionate among the poor because children feel they are needed by their family?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the definition of usefulness in the book?
2. What does Eleanor Roosevelt believe families should share and how should they interact?
3. What is the key to democracy, according to Thomas Jefferson?
4. Why is the United States often despised by other nations?
5. How do people choose their beliefs?
6. What example does Eleanor Roosevelt share about when discussing how to deal with people by estimating the extent of one's success in communicating with them?
7. How is conformity promoted in the workplace and how does the individual rise from the pressure?
8. How does Eleanor Roosevelt say one can be useful?
9. What does Eleanor Roosevelt believe that people's ambitions should be about?
10. How do people create themselves and who do they blame for their mistakes?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Eleanor Roosevelt believes that people must be interested in anything that comes their way and that it is absolutely necessary to keep a flexibility of mind since knowledge so often changes. Discuss our current administration, and the state of international relations with Iran, Afghanistan, and China. How and why is flexibility of mind crucial in these times of social and economic change? Why is this kind of flexibility different from assuming knowledge? Provide 3 examples of current events where it is necessary to keep a flexible mind in your analysis.
Essay Topic 2
Eleanor Roosevelt suggests four tips on how to use time wisely. The four tips include retaining an inner calm, learning to concentrate, organize time with responsibility, and use common sense in taking care of your health. Choose two of these tips on time and analyze how they are efficient. Describe how either you, or someone you know, puts these tips to use and analyze whether or not they are successful. If they are successful, describe how they are successful. If they are not, describe how they can be improved. Complete this assignment in a personal narrative style.
Essay Topic 3
Elanor Roosevelt strives to offer guideposts to steer others away from pitfalls and mistakes but considers that it may only be possible for someone to learn life lessons through their own mistakes. To what extent is this belief true? To what extent is this belief false? Use 2 examples from your own life and 1 example from a historical life and compare and contrast the possibilities. Do you really have to fail or succeed in order to truly learn and make a change?
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