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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. What did Marion Dickerman and Eleanor Roosevelt do together after Marion invited Eleanor to teach?
(a) Opened a new school.
(b) Started teaching in the ghettoes.
(c) Bought the school.
(d) Developed new techniques for teaching poor people.

2. When was Eleanor Roosevelt born?
(a) 1895.
(b) 1884.
(c) 1874.
(d) 1868.

3. What advice did Louis Howe give Eleanor Roosevelt after Franklin Roosevelt's paralysis?
(a) To keep Franklin Roosevelt's name before the public.
(b) To get her husband to retire.
(c) To keep medical information from her husband.
(d) To get Franklin Roosevelt to write a book about his paralysis.

4. What was Franklin Roosevelt's response to Eleanor Roosevelt's feelings about her household?
(a) He told her to keep busy.
(b) He told her to just bear it.
(c) He told her to speak up.
(d) He told her that it wouldn't be long before things improved.

5. What did Elliot Roosevelt's drinking lead to, according to Freedman?
(a) Temperance meetings.
(b) Religion.
(c) Love affairs.
(d) Depression.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Freedman say Eleanor Roosevelt's relationship with her mother-in-law affected her?

3. Why was Eleanor Roosevelt given this nickname?

4. When did Eleanor start to see Franklin regularly?

5. How does Freedman characterize the time Eleanor Roosevelt spent at Allenswood?

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