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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do unhappy people treat their time?
(a) unhappy people use their time for pleasure
(b) unhappy people have no idea what to do with their time
(c) unhappy people feel a sense of guilt about their time
(d) unhappy people give their time away to other's discretion

2. Who was Eleanor Roosevelt?
(a) a Nobel Laureate
(b) the winner of the Pulitzer Prize
(c) the former First Lady
(d) the first Congresswoman

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

4. After Eleanor's husband dies, who does she turn to in order to stave off loneliness?
(a) her children
(b) her doctor
(c) her neighbor
(d) her secretary

5. What essentially changes when family income changes?
(a) one's sense of pride
(b) one's sense of values
(c) one's sense of meaning
(d) one's sense of purpose

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

7. What must parents be free of in order to raise their children free of fear?
(a) fear
(b) materialism
(c) confusion
(d) affectation

8. What are the three environments in which people obtain their education?
(a) at home, at school, and at play
(b) at home, on the playground, and on holiday
(c) at home, at school, and from life
(d) at home, at school, and with friends

9. How does Eleanor Roosevelt overcome her fear of nearly everything as a timid child?
(a) through self-esteem
(b) through self-discipline
(c) through self-preservation
(d) through self-efficacy

10. What is the name of the people who throw the dinner party in which Eleanor makes an unsuccessful attempt at playing her newly learned conversational game?
(a) Governor and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge
(b) The Queen of England
(c) President and Mrs. Wilson
(d) The President and First Lady of France

11. What does Miss Hickok do to cope with her own personal health disaster?
(a) she starts a volunteer organization
(b) she learns a new language
(c) she writes children's stories
(d) she creates art for children

12. What kind of advice does Eleanor Roosevelt offer to her readers?
(a) self-improvement advice
(b) humanitarian advice
(c) challenging advice
(d) solution-seeking advice

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

14. According to Eleanor Roosevelt, how are most readjustments caused?
(a) by adolescence and change
(b) by domestic dispute
(c) by war or relocation
(d) by age and dying

15. What are Eleanor Roosevelt's two remedies for weariness caused by over-activity?
(a) good food and sleep
(b) travel and relaxation
(c) rest and change
(d) relaxation and change

Short Answer Questions

1. What kinds of experience must people learn from?

2. What does Ms. Roosevelt say is more important than experience, especially in children?

3. From whom does Eleanor Roosevelt inherit her good will?

4. What example does Eleanor Roosevelt use as a way to describe how to accept others?

5. According to Eleanor Roosevelt, what might retirement time be used for?

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