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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. This chapter focuses on Franklin's ______________________________.
(a) Yachting trips
(b) Diagnosis of polio
(c) Trips to Warm Springs
(d) Nomination for a third term as President

2. In what city did Eleanor grow up?
(a) Atlanta
(b) New York
(c) Chicago
(d) Paris

3. For how many years had Franklin D. Roosevelt been President of the United States at the beginning of the book?
(a) 2
(b) 3
(c) 7
(d) 5

4. As part of his presidential campaign of 1940, what did Roosevelt do?
(a) Increased the number of fireside chats
(b) Toured the Southern states
(c) Dismissed Missy LeHand
(d) Visited defense plants

5. How old was Eleanor when her mother died?
(a) 3
(b) 5
(c) 8
(d) 21

6. What role does Eleanor take on after Franklin's illness?
(a) Mistress
(b) Business partner
(c) Legal counselor
(d) Secretary

7. In Roosevelt's January 1941 State of the Union address, he names ____________________________.
(a) His new running mate
(b) Four essential freedoms
(c) His successor in the Democratic Party
(d) A new Secretary of State

8. What did Roosevelt consider important during the pre-war period?
(a) Developing the United Nations
(b) Creating more jobs
(c) A working relationship between government and business
(d) Negotiating peace in Europe

9. With whom does Franklin continue to spend weekends and afternoons?
(a) Princess Martha
(b) Winston Churchill
(c) Missy LeHand
(d) Eleanor

10. Who does Franklin make a trip to see in Warm Springs, Georgia?
(a) Missy LeHand
(b) His uncle
(c) The governor
(d) Eleanor

11. Who was Joseph Lash?
(a) Franklin's personal valet
(b) Eleanor's cousin
(c) Eleanor's secretary
(d) Eleanor's companion

12. What does Roosevelt do for Missy?
(a) Buys her a new wardrobe
(b) Sends her a wedding gift
(c) Throws a going away party for her
(d) Leaves her half his estate in his will

13. What did Roosevelt and Churchill unite on during this period?
(a) The assassination of Hitler
(b) A new draft effort
(c) The assassination of Mussolini
(d) Development of an atomic bomb

14. How old is Franklin D. Roosevelt at the beginning of the book?
(a) 53
(b) 63
(c) 48
(d) 58

15. What became prevalent in America in 1941?
(a) New Deal jobs
(b) Labor strikes
(c) Television
(d) Prohibition

Short Answer Questions

1. With what public figure does Roosevelt have a romantic flirtation?

2. What is the name of the proposal Roosevelt devised to help the British?

3. Who replaces Neville Chamberlain as Prime Minister of Great Britain?

4. What was Eleanor's personality as she became an adult?

5. How is the Roosevelts' marriage described?

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