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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freedman say the Secret Service objected to?

2. What does Freedman say were Eleanor Roosevelt's feelings about her father?

3. What was Eleanor Roosevelt's relationship with Susie Parish?

4. How does Freedman characterize the time Eleanor Roosevelt spent at Allenswood?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe Eleanor Roosevelt's first engagement.

3. How did Eleanor Roosevelt change the position of First Lady?

4. How does Freedman say Eleanor Roosevelt asserted her independence as First Lady?

5. What was Eleanor Roosevelt's childhood nickname?

6. How did the role of First Lady change Eleanor Roosevelt?

7. Describe Eleanor's relationship with Sarah Roosevelt.

8. Describe Eleanor Roosevelt's family background.

9. How did Eleanor like being a Senator's wife?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How has Eleanor Roosevelt changed what it means to be First Lady? How have First Ladies since Eleanor Roosevelt built upon her legacy?

Essay Topic 2

What were the most important influences on Eleanor Roosevelt's life and development, and how did people or events shape her? How did she exert influences on other people in turn?

Essay Topic 3

How has feminism changed since Eleanor Roosevelt? How does modern feminism bear the imprint of Eleanor Roosevelt's work in the 1920s and 1930s?

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