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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Nine: Partners.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Eleanor Roosevelt secretly engaged to at nineteen?
(a) A Harvard boy.
(b) A working boy.
(c) A boy from the Junior League.
(d) A cousin.

2. Who were Eleanor Roosevelt's classmates at Allenswood?
(a) Wealthy girls.
(b) Her siblings.
(c) Diplomats' daughters.
(d) Working girls.

3. What does Freedman say Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt saw in Europe?
(a) Resistance to industrialism.
(b) Death and destruction.
(c) Socialism taking hold.
(d) Hope and rebuilding.

4. How does Freedman characterize Eleanor Roosevelt's role in the New Age her husband was inaugurating?
(a) She was the motivation.
(b) She was the intelligence.
(c) She was the conscience.
(d) She was the legwork.

5. What does Freedman say was the effect of Franklin Roosevelt's paralysis?
(a) He learned to remain untouched by political attacks.
(b) He became more understanding of people's hardships.
(c) He despaired, but was occasionally inspired.
(d) He began to drink and became depressed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Eleanor Roosevelt's relationship with Susie Parish?

2. What was Franklin Roosevelt in charge of in Europe?

3. Where was Allenswood?

4. What was it that paralyzed Franklin Roosevelt?

5. What sadness attended Eleanor Roosevelt's return to the U.S.?

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