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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 words did Eleanor Roosevelt use to describe her looks?

2. Where does Freedman say Eleanor Roosevelt enjoyed happy times?

3. What was the relation between Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt?

4. How does Freedman describe Eleanor Roosevelt's mother's looks?

5. How does Freedman characterize Eleanor Roosevelt's social demeanor at age 18?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Eleanor Roosevelt meet and begin to spend time with Franklin Roosevelt?

3. How did Franklin Roosevelt's mother react to news of the engagement?

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

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

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

7. Describe Franklin Roosevelt's first experience in politics.

8. What was the effect of Eleanor Roosevelt's mother's beauty?

9. What does Freedman say Eleanor Roosevelt felt when her husband was running for President?

10. What was Allenswood like?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

To what extent was Eleanor Roosevelt a product of her times? How did the Great War, Prohibition, the Depression and the build-up toward war in Europe in the 1930s shape her personality? How did her personality pres back against the pressure of the times?

Essay Topic 2

What can Eleanor Roosevelt's life teach us, about how to live? What moral does Freedman extract from her life, and what other morals might it teach?

Essay Topic 3

Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?

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