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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Eleanor Roosevelt work with a private coach to improve?
(a) Her writing.
(b) Her sense of diplomacy and propriety.
(c) Her driving.
(d) Her public speaking.

2. How does Freedman characterize conversations at the White House?
(a) The children would interrupt Franklin or Eleanor Roosevelt if they didn't agree.
(b) There was always a respectful silence when the President and First Lady spoke.
(c) Eleanor would throw people out of they disagreed with her.
(d) The President and First Lady would pick their visitors' brains for information and observations.

3. What did Franklin Roosevelt do after losing the 1920 election?
(a) Traveled.
(b) Charity work.
(c) Joined a law firm.
(d) Started strategizing for 1924.

4. What was Eleanor Roosevelt's suspicion about the Democratic Party's interest in women's rights?
(a) They did not really want give women a say.
(b) They were just trying to use the female vote.
(c) They were using the women's issues to distract from other more politically awkward issues.
(d) They wanted to make token gestures, but ultimately prevent women from having rights.

5. When did Franklin Roosevelt ask Congress for a declaration of war?
(a) December 8, 1941.
(b) August, 1945.
(c) September 2, 1939.
(d) May 1, 1940.

6. What does Freedman say was the effect of Franklin Roosevelt's paralysis?
(a) He despaired, but was occasionally inspired.
(b) He learned to remain untouched by political attacks.
(c) He began to drink and became depressed.
(d) He became more understanding of people's hardships.

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

8. What does Freedman say Franklin Roosevelt did in the wake of his affair?
(a) Pleaded with her to allow him his dalliances.
(b) Tried to please Eleanor.
(c) Insisted on his rights as a man.
(d) Disregarded Eleanor's feelings.

9. What does Freedman say Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt saw in Europe?
(a) Death and destruction.
(b) Socialism taking hold.
(c) Resistance to industrialism.
(d) Hope and rebuilding.

10. How does Freedman say Franklin Roosevelt's relationship with Eleanor changed in his second term?
(a) He relied on her more.
(b) He guarded information from her.
(c) He forced her to be more restrained.
(d) He gave her power to run more of his administration.

11. What does Freedman say were Eleanor Roosevelt's feelings about war?
(a) Freedman says that Eleanor hated the possibility of another war.
(b) Freedman says that Eleanor was anxious to get troops to Europe to protect the poor and desperate people there.
(c) Freedman says that Eleanor wanted to defeat Germany once and for all.
(d) Freedman says that Eleanor favored air strikes to occupation.

12. How does Freedman say Eleanor tried to convey her observations to her husband?
(a) In a light that would help the common man.
(b) As accurately as possible.
(c) In a light that would help women's rights.
(d) In a light that would help him in the polls.

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

14. What responsibility did Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt say the government bore?
(a) To spur innovation.
(b) To defend the weak.
(c) To encourage innovation.
(d) To regulate business practices.

15. What was Roosevelt and the Democrats' position on the League of Nations?
(a) They wanted the U.S. to run it.
(b) They were in favor of limiting U.S. involvement in it.
(c) They were opposed to joining it.
(d) They were in favor of joining.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Marion Dickerman invite Eleanor to teach?

2. What were the social conditions like in America when Franklin Roosevelt took office?

3. How does Freedman say the marriage between Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt changed after the Lucy Mercer affair?

4. How does Freedman characterize Eleanor Roosevelt's role in the New Age her husband was inaugurating?

5. Who was Eleanor Roosevelt speaking for in her talks?

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