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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Eleanor and her siblings spend the winters?
(a) Florida.
(b) New York City.
(c) Boston.
(d) Philadelphia.

2. After the vice presidential election, where did the Roosevelts move?
(a) Campobello.
(b) New York.
(c) Philadelphia.
(d) Washington.

3. How did Eleanor and Franklin contract typhoid fever?
(a) Drinking water.
(b) Mosquitoes.
(c) Contaminated fish.
(d) They aren't sure.

4. What was the name of Eleanor's boarding school?
(a) None of the answers is correct..
(b) Ellenswold.
(c) Les Ruches.
(d) Allenswood..

5. Whose house did the Roosevelts move into in 1913?
(a) Theodore's.
(b) Bart's.
(c) Aunt Bye's.
(d) Aunt Pussie's.

6. Whom does Eleanor introduce at the beginning of her book?
(a) Her grandparents.
(b) Her children.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Franklin.

7. Who was nominated for president in 1928?
(a) Theodore Roosevelt.
(b) Alfred Smith.
(c) Franklin.
(d) Woodrow Wilson.

8. Where did Franklin attend law school?
(a) Columbia.
(b) Yale.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Princeton.

9. Where was Franklin in the fall of 1928?
(a) Maine.
(b) New York City.
(c) The Democratic Convention.
(d) Warm Springs.

10. Where was Eleanor when the declaration of war was delivered to Congress?
(a) The Visitor's Gallery.
(b) At home.
(c) Boston.
(d) At Campobello.

11. Which of her children did Eleanor have the most difficulty sending to boarding school?
(a) Her oldest daughter.
(b) Her youngest.
(c) Her first son.
(d) All of them.

12. What did Franklin need in order to walk?
(a) Braces and crutches.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Eleanor's arm.
(d) Medication.

13. Where did the Franklins spend Sunday evenings?
(a) At home.
(b) At the theatre.
(c) At Franklin's mother's home.
(d) At political events.

14. What did Franklin think about his wife's advice regarding politics?
(a) He respected it, but didn't always follow it.
(b) He did not think she was able to make those types of decisions.
(c) He listened to her and always did what she said.
(d) He frequently asked her to be quiet.

15. Why was the First Lady able to travel without being recognized?
(a) She prohibited anyone from taking pictures of her.
(b) There was no television.
(c) She was plain.
(d) She always wore a disguise.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who died at the end of Chapter 10?

2. What position was Franklin campaigning for in 1910?

3. Where was Eleanor when Uncle Ted died?

4. What did the Roosevelts create that promoted employment?

5. Who else was on the Roosevelts' ship when they sailed home?

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