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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 did Eleanor and Franklin contract typhoid fever?

2. Where did Eleanor and Franklin spend the summer with Franklin's family?

3. Where was Franklin in the fall of 1928?

4. Who escorted Eleanor home at the end of her first year of boarding school?

5. Where did Eleanor and Franklin spend their honeymoon?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Eleanor and Franklin's wedding.

2. How much of Eleanor's advice do you think Franklin took seriously? Why do you think that?

3. What sorts of travel experiences did Eleanor have as a young girl?

4. Describe Eleanor's trip to the Pacific.

5. Which heads of state visited Eleanor and Franklin in the White House?

6. What was Eleanor like in large groups as a teenager?

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

8. Who comes to visit the White House in early 1944?

9. How did Eleanor react to adjusting to a life without Franklin?

10. What was Eleanor's description of when Franklin won the presidential election?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the way Eleanor addressed the role of women in her book. Why did she choose to address this topic in particular? Did you learn anything about the role of women that you didn't know before?

Essay Topic 2

How did certain events in Eleanor's book evoke a climatic feeling? What is it about Franklin's death that evokes a sense of climax? Does it have anything to do with anticipation or what you already knew before you read Eleanor's book?

Essay Topic 3

What do you think was Eleanor's main goal in writing this book? What did she want readers to take away from the book, or to understand better after reading it?

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