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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. Whose house did the Roosevelts move into in 1913?

2. Where did Eleanor attend boarding school at the age of 15?

3. Who prepared the home for Eleanor and Franklin after they were married?

4. Which of the following was not a type of lesson Eleanor took?

5. Where was Eleanor when the declaration of war was delivered to Congress?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Eleanor's interactions with the King and Queen of Greece.

2. How did the relationship between Eleanor and Franklin evolve?

3. Compare Eleanor's views of how Russians were helping the world and how Americans were helping the world in 1959.

4. How did Eleanor's work with the UN impact her interest in the Soviet Union?

5. How did Franklin's vice-presidential nomination affect Eleanor?

6. What was Eleanor's impression of the refugee camps in the Middle East?

7. During her first years as First Lady, what seemed to have affected Eleanor the most as she made her trips around the United States?

8. What did Eleanor learn about Hong Kong in the mid-1950s?

9. Eleanor and Franklin were cousins. During the early 1900's, how socially acceptable was the practice of dating and marrying a cousin?

10. Eleanor states that she didn't like being separated from her children. Do you think this affected her duties as a politician's wife? Why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the difference between denotation and connotation. How does this related to the word "wife" in terms of Eleanor's book?

Essay Topic 2

What role did less well-known people play in Eleanor's book? What advantages and disadvantages were there to having so many people in this book? Would you have preferred that Eleanor included fewer people? Why?

Essay Topic 3

What effect did being part of the presidential family have on Eleanor's book? How did it add to the information in the book?

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