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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Four: Cousin Franklin.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were Eleanor Roosevelt's best subjects at Allenswood?
(a) Botany and husbandry.
(b) Greek and Latin.
(c) Religion and poetry.
(d) Literature and history.

2. Who was Eleanor Roosevelt secretly engaged to at nineteen?
(a) A Harvard boy.
(b) A cousin.
(c) A working boy.
(d) A boy from the Junior League.

3. Who were Eleanor Roosevelt's classmates at Allenswood?
(a) Diplomats' daughters.
(b) Working girls.
(c) Her siblings.
(d) Wealthy girls.

4. What difficulties does Freedman say Eleanor Roosevelt was First Lady through?
(a) Reconstruction.
(b) The Great War.
(c) The Civil War.
(d) The Depression.

5. What made Eleanor Roosevelt feel out of place in the company of her mother, grandmother, and aunts?
(a) She had been educated abroad.
(b) She was not married yet.
(c) She did not know Greek.
(d) She was not a beauty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of gathering was Eleanor Roosevelt a frequent attendant at after her return to the U.S.?

2. When did Eleanor start to see Franklin regularly?

3. What words did Eleanor Roosevelt use to describe her looks?

4. What does Freedman say the Secret Service objected to?

5. What modest claim does Freedman say Eleanor Roosevelt made about her work as First Lady?

(see the answer key)

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