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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Ch. 3, The Uses of Time.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After one has children of their own, what does Eleanor Roosevelt guard against?
(a) allowing the child to run the house
(b) alienating her husband
(c) listening only to her female friends and not her family
(d) giving up one's friends and interests

2. What does Eleanor do in order to attend the play in which she is forbidden to see?
(a) she steals
(b) she becomes an actress
(c) she convinces her guardians to let her go
(d) she lies

3. Who is the author of "You Learn By Living"?
(a) Eleanor Roosevelt
(b) Laura Roosevelt
(c) Franklin Delano Roosevelt
(d) Teddy Roosevelt

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

5. Above all else, what does Eleanor Roosevelt wish for all her reader do in regard to the uses of time?
(a) use time as a means to an end
(b) use time to create a better life
(c) use time wisely
(d) use time for personal improvement

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Eleanor Roosevelt overhear her youngest son praise about having chance to pursue because of the support he received from his parents?

3. What conversational game does Ruth Bryan Rohde explain to Eleanor Roosevelt?

4. What kinds of experience must people learn from?

5. What is Eleanor Roosevelt's philosophy about how different things work for different people?

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