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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 Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt saw in Europe?

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

3. What did Eleanor Roosevelt co-direct with Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia?

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

5. How did Eleanor Roosevelt describe her political position?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Where does Freedman say Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt differed politically?

4. What was the debate over the League of Nations in 1920, and how did it affect Franklin Roosevelt's election prospects?

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

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

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

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

9. How would Eleanor go about trying to influence the President on issues she had feelings about?

10. Describe Franklin Roosevelt's death.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What was the role of Franklin Roosevelt's paralysis in Eleanor Roosevelt's life? Would she have been the Eleanor Roosevelt we know now if her husband had been able-bodied?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

It comes out late in the biography that Franklin had seen Lucy Mercer (Lucy Mercer Rutherford) a number of times after Eleanor Roosevelt thought their affair was over. How did Eleanor Roosevelt live without intimacy of her own? Was politics enough for her? What did she do with her desire for personal love?

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