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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Eleanor and Franklin always have together after she returned from a trip?
(a) A dance.
(b) A drink.
(c) A date night out.
(d) An uninterrupted meal.

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

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

4. With whom did Eleanor work on the League of Women Voters?
(a) Gloria Steinem.
(b) Jane Addams.
(c) Elizabeth Read.
(d) Dorothea Dix.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Eleanor work after leaving school?

2. Who died at the end of Chapter 10?

3. Which of the following countries did Eleanor and Franklin not visit the summer after they were married?

4. Who prepared the home for Eleanor and Franklin after they were married?

5. Why didn't the Roosevelts return from their summer vacation on time?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the process of how Franklin was elected governor of New York, including the Democratic Convention.

2. How did Eleanor become aware at a young age that there is much suffering in the world?

3. What was Eleanor's description of when Franklin won the presidential election?

4. Describe Eleanor's relationship with her biological parents.

5. Eleanor and Franklin were cousins. During the early 1900's, how socially acceptable was the practice of dating and marrying a cousin?

6. Why do you think it was the hardest for Eleanor to send her youngest child to boarding school?

7. During her first years as First Lady, what seemed to have affected Eleanor the most as she made her trips around the United States?

8. What description does Eleanor give about Campobello?

9. Rather than being in public office throughout most of the 1920's, what was Franklin doing instead?

10. What was Eleanor like in large groups as a teenager?

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