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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 was Roosevelt and the Democrats' position on the League of Nations?

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

3. What effect did her husband's paralysis have on Eleanor's feelings for him?

4. How did Franklin Roosevelt show his regard for Marion Dickerman and Nancy Cook?

5. What did Eleanor like about Louis Howe?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the crisis surrounding Lucy Mercer.

3. How does Freedman describe Eleanor Roosevelt's career through Franklin's first term as President?

4. What was the outcome of the affair with Lucy Mercer?

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

6. What policies did Eleanor advocate in the Democratic Party?

7. How does Freedman describe the White House as it was occupied by Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt?

8. How did Eleanor develop as a public speaker?

9. Describe the Roosevelts' experience in Europe after the Great War.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did Eleanor Roosevelt's sense of inferiority change over time? Did she learn to compensate for it, or did she turn it into a strength?

Essay Topic 2

What is the difference between Eleanor Roosevelt as a daughter and Eleanor Roosevelt as a mother. What changed in the interval? How did she alter the course of her family in the children she raised?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the health of the liberal legacy Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt left us. How have the ideas they instituted in government fared? Are their ideals dead or alive today?

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