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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Ten: The War Years.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Anna Roosevelt die of?
(a) Polio.
(b) Tuberculosis.
(c) Diptheria.
(d) Scarlet fever.

3. How would Eleanor go about making a recommendation to her husband, according to Freedman?
(a) She would talk to him when they were alone.
(b) She would talk to her husband's advisors, and convince them to support her idea.
(c) She would buy a book or bring a guest who could articulate her idea.
(d) She would make her proposal in the most concise way.

4. What does Freedman say the Secret Service objected to?
(a) Eleanor Roosevelt's trips to foreign countries.
(b) Eleanor Roosevelt's reclusivity.
(c) Eleanor Roosevelt's outspoken public persona.
(d) Eleanor Roosevelt's driving alone.

5. How did Eleanor Roosevelt react to her father's death, in Freedman's account?
(a) She grieved hard for three months then forgot him.
(b) She created a religious mindset in which his spirit was still with her.
(c) She became depressed and suicidal.
(d) She created a fantasy world where he was still alive.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freedman say the Secret Service gave Eleanor Roosevelt?

2. What communities did Eleanor Roosevelt provide political access to for her husband?

3. What effect did her husband's paralysis have on Eleanor's feelings for him?

4. Eleanor Roosevelt was criticized for advocating what political stance?

5. What does Freedman say Eleanor Roosevelt did about this feeling?

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