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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 were the social conditions like in America when Franklin Roosevelt took office?

2. What does Freedman say was the effect of Franklin Roosevelt's paralysis?

3. With whom did Eleanor Roosevelt fly from Baltimore to Washington D.C.?

4. How does Freedman say the marriage between Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt changed after the Lucy Mercer affair?

5. What did Eleanor Roosevelt dislike about the prospect of moving to Washington D.C.?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Eleanor's relationship with the black community.

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

3. How does Freedman characterize Eleanor Roosevelt's response to European hostilities?

4. Why did Franklin Roosevelt end up taking a third term as President?

5. What did Eleanor Roosevelt do to help women, as First Lady?

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

7. Describe Franklin Roosevelt's illness and paralysis.

8. How did her husband's loss in 1920 affect Eleanor Roosevelt's political activities?

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

10. Describe Franklin Roosevelt's death.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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