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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. Who was allowed into Eleanor Roosevelt's press conferences?
(a) Only female reporters.
(b) The media.
(c) Only unemployed people.
(d) Only teachers and social workers.

2. How did Eleanor Roosevelt describe her political position?
(a) Hawkish.
(b) Isolationist.
(c) Anti-war.
(d) Practical pacifism.

3. When did Franklin Roosevelt take office in the White House?
(a) March 1931.
(b) March 1933.
(c) April 1934.
(d) February 1932.

4. Where did Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt honeymoon?
(a) California.
(b) Niagara Falls.
(c) Europe.
(d) Newport.

5. What is NOT an innovation Freedman credits Eleanor Roosevelt with?
(a) Opening the White House doors to reporters.
(b) Driving her own car.
(c) Negotiating treaties herself.
(d) Traveling the world.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Eleanor Roosevelt co-direct with Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia?

2. Why was Eleanor Roosevelt given this nickname?

3. Who was Eleanor Roosevelt secretly engaged to at nineteen?

4. What does Freedman say Franklin Roosevelt needed as the war took a toll on him?

5. How did Franklin Roosevelt come to national prominence after 1929?

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