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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who arranges for Lucy Mercer to visit Roosevelt every time Eleanor traveled?
(a) Lucy Mercer
(b) Eleanor Roosevelt
(c) Anna Roosevelt
(d) Elliott Roosevelt

2. Where does Eleanor travel to visit with U.S. soldiers?
(a) Paris
(b) London
(c) The South Pacific
(d) North Africa

3. What topic became of supreme interest for Eleanor?
(a) Equal treatment for Negro servicemen
(b) Energy conservation
(c) Funding for hair salons
(d) Grants for agricultural businesses

4. By the end of 1942, how many Jews were estimated to have been killed by the Germans?
(a) 3 million
(b) 30 thousand
(c) 3 thousand
(d) 30 million

5. Who monitored Roosevelt's increasing periods of ill health?
(a) Lucy Mercer
(b) Anna Roosevelt
(c) Lorena Hickok
(d) Eleanor Roosevelt

6. Whose arrest added to the encouraging war news from abroad?
(a) Hitler
(b) Goebbels
(c) Mussolini
(d) Eichmann

7. Who is angered by a meeting held between Roosevelt and Churchill in August of 1943?
(a) Eleanor Roosevelt
(b) Joseph Stalin
(c) Lucy Mercer
(d) Adolf Hitler

8. What strikes Eleanor upon her return trip?
(a) Cancer
(b) Fatigue
(c) Depression
(d) Anxiety

9. What was the Swan Island Day Care Center?
(a) The first school tunrned into a military barracks
(b) A model for day care centers in America during the war
(c) Missy LeHand's place of employment after she left the White House
(d) Where the Roosevelt children went

10. For what does Eleanor lobby in the summer and fall of 1944?
(a) Education of minorities
(b) Women's employment rights
(c) Family planning
(d) Child care initiatives

11. What medication is prescribed for Roosevelt?
(a) Digitalis
(b) Insulin
(c) Augmentin
(d) Zocor

12. What staple item is added to the ration list by Thanksgiving of 1942?
(a) sweet potatoes
(b) turkey
(c) tea
(d) coffee

13. Who dies at the beginning of Chapter 21?
(a) Lorena Hickok
(b) Lucy Mercer
(c) Winston Churchill
(d) Missy LeHand

14. In what condition is the White House when the Trumans move in?
(a) Practically vacant
(b) Pristine and gleaming
(c) Dirty and rundown
(d) A little shoddy

15. What did Winston Churchill become after World War II?
(a) Secretary of War
(b) Prime Minister for another term
(c) Ambassador to the United States
(d) Author and statesman

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Eleanor Roosevelt die?

2. With whom did Roosevelt meet at this conference?

3. Where do Roosevelt and Churchill hold secret talks in January of 1943?

4. In what organization did Eleanor become a vital force?

5. Which people were kept in internment camps in America during the war?

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