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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Seven: Friendship and Politics.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Eleanor Roosevelt say Mlle. Souvestre affected her?
(a) She taught her to go without things.
(b) She strengthened her resolve.
(c) She schooled her in religion.
(d) She opened her mind.

2. What was Eleanor Roosevelt's lifestyle like, according to Freedman?
(a) Thrifty.
(b) Luxurious.
(c) Penurious.
(d) Niggardly.

3. What did Eleanor give up at Sara's insistence?
(a) Smoking.
(b) Charity work.
(c) Her teaching job in the slums.
(d) Going to the opera.

4. Which improvement were women NOT trying to make when Eleanor Roosevelt was working with the Women's Democratic News?
(a) Limiting hours of the work week.
(b) Giving women the right to organize in labor unions
(c) Ending child labor.
(d) Giving women the vote.

5. How did Franklin Roosevelt come to national prominence after 1929?
(a) His enormous losses in the stock market crash.
(b) His aggressive steps to create jobs.
(c) His personal contributions to the state's funds.
(d) His strict discrimination policies.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were Eleanor Roosevelt's classmates at Allenswood?

2. What was Franklin responsible for when the U.S. entered World War I?

3. Where did Marion Dickerman invite Eleanor to teach?

4. What was Eleanor Roosevelt's status in Mlle. Souvestre's eyes?

5. What was Eleanor's position at the Women's Democratic News?

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