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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 the name of Eleanor and Franklin's first son?

2. How were Eleanor and Franklin related?

3. Where did Eleanor work after leaving school?

4. How did Eleanor and Franklin contract typhoid fever?

5. Whom did Eleanor live with after her mother died?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the structure of social life change when the United States entered WWI?

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

3. What description does Eleanor give about Campobello?

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

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

6. How did the relationship between Eleanor and Franklin evolve?

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. How did Franklin's vice-presidential nomination affect Eleanor?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Summarize Eleanor's family of origin. Why would Eleanor include these chapters in her book? What information did she give about her mother, father, and siblings?

Essay Topic 2

What role did less well-known people play in Eleanor's book? What advantages and disadvantages were there to having so many people in this book? Would you have preferred that Eleanor included fewer people? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Eleanor revealed much about the effects of World War I on American families and societies. What did you learn from her book regarding the lasting effects on World War I?

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