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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. How long was Eleanor's campaign trip with Franklin in 1920?

2. What sort of problem did Elliott Roosevelt have?

3. Whose house did the Roosevelts move into in 1913?

4. How did Eleanor and Franklin contract typhoid fever?

5. After the vice presidential election, where did the Roosevelts move?

Short Essay Questions

1. How much of Eleanor's advice do you think Franklin took seriously? Why do you think that?

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

3. Summarize Eleanor's first ten years of marriage. What were her main duties?

4. What view did Eleanor have of World War I? How do readers know?

5. Eleanor states that she didn't like being separated from her children. Do you think this affected her duties as a politician's wife? Why?

6. What sorts of activities did Eleanor become involved in when the family moved to New York?

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

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

9. How did Eleanor's relationship with her mother-in-law change in Chapter 11?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

What is the purpose of juxtaposition in literature? Describe one discipline in Eleanor's book that you think is a good example of a juxtaposition of another discipline. Why do you think she may have presented concepts in her book this way?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast Eleanor as a shy, young wife and Eleanor at the time the book ends. How did Eleanor's life change? How did she stay the same?

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