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

2. What were Franklin Roosevelt's advisers' thoughts about Eleanor Roosevelt?
(a) They let her test the waters, and then charted their course.
(b) They played off her radical views to enhance Franklin Roosevelt's image.
(c) They were apprehensive about her radical views.
(d) They tried everything they could to silence her.

3. What did Marion Dickerman and Eleanor Roosevelt do together after Marion invited Eleanor to teach?
(a) Opened a new school.
(b) Bought the school.
(c) Developed new techniques for teaching poor people.
(d) Started teaching in the ghettoes.

4. What did Eleanor attribute to Esther Lape and Elizabeth Read?
(a) Her triumph over shyness.
(b) Her political awakening.
(c) Her ability to speak up to her mother-in-law.
(d) Her devotion to her husband.

5. What did Eleanor learn how to do in order to teach her children?
(a) Shoot.
(b) Swim.
(c) Drive.
(d) Fish.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Eleanor Roosevelt work with a private coach to improve?

2. What was Eleanor Roosevelt's response when she found Lucy Mercer's love letters to Franklin?

3. What does Freedman say Franklin Roosevelt would ask his wife to back away from?

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

5. What was Eleanor's position at the Women's Democratic News?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Eleanor's experience teaching at the Todhunter school.

2. How does Freedman describe the role Eleanor stepped into in the family after her husband was paralyzed?

3. How did Eleanor develop as a public speaker?

4. In what way was Eleanor Roosevelt unlike previous First Ladies?

5. In what way did Franklin's polio contribute to Eleanor's political activism?

6. Describe Franklin Roosevelt's illness and paralysis.

7. What does the term 'liberal' mean when applied to Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt?

8. What was Eleanor Roosevelt's part in the National Youth Administration?

9. Describe the crisis surrounding Lucy Mercer.

10. How did Eleanor Roosevelt's role change in Franklin's second term as President?

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