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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. What does Freedman say Eleanor Roosevelt did to the position of First Lady?
(a) Won more power for it.
(b) Turned it into a more diplomatic position.
(c) Debased the office.
(d) Took it to new heights.

4. Where did Franklin Roosevelt attend law school?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Cornell.
(c) Yale.
(d) Columbia.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Freedman characterize Franklin Roosevelt's attitude toward the children?

2. What gesture of familiarity was forbidden to Franklin Roosevelt?

3. Which child of Eleanor Roosevelt's died in infancy?

4. What was Franklin responsible for when the U.S. entered World War I?

5. What does Freedman say was the effect of this nickname?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the scene when Franklin Roosevelt proposed to Eleanor.

2. What did Franklin Roosevelt see in Eleanor--what did he tell her when his proposal surprised her?

3. What sadness waited for Eleanor Roosevelt when she returned to the U.S. from London?

4. What was Franklin Roosevelt's next step in politics?

5. Why wasn't Eleanor Roosevelt looking forward to her coming out?

6. How does Freedman characterize the difference between Eleanor and Franklin's personalities?

7. Describe Eleanor Roosevelt's first engagement.

8. What does Freedman tell us, in the opening chapter, about Eleanor Roosevelt's childhood?

9. What was the Secret Service's problem with Eleanor Roosevelt?

10. What deaths did Eleanor Roosevelt encounter as a childhood?

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