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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What information do reports from Europe contain?
(a) The Japanese are planning another attack
(b) The Allies are winning
(c) The Russian atomic bomb is ready for deployment
(d) Jews are being murdered in concentration camps

2. What important conference does Roosevelt attend in January of 1945?
(a) The League of Nations Conference
(b) The auto workers Conference
(c) The Yalta Conference
(d) The United Nations Conference

3. What major event takes place in November of 1943?
(a) The Teheran Conference
(b) The death of Chiang Kai-shek
(c) The end of World War II
(d) The founding of the United Nations

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

5. What new platform replaces the "New Deal?"
(a) Win, Lose or Draw
(b) Win the War
(c) The Best Deal
(d) No Deal

6. What did Roosevelt try to arrange before the Congressional election in 1942?
(a) His bid for reelection
(b) The invasion of North Africa
(c) The declaration of war on Germany
(d) The resignation of the Secretary of War

7. With whom had Franklin fallen in love during the early years of his marriage to Eleanor?
(a) Eleanor's publisher, Lucy Mercer
(b) Eleanor's cousin, Lucy Mercer
(c) Eleanor's best friend, Lucy Mercer
(d) Eleanor's secretary, Lucy Mercer

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

9. What does Roosevelt agree to for the fourth time in 1944?
(a) Visit Warm Springs, Georgia
(b) Run for president
(c) Have his portrait painted
(d) Get a complete physical

10. With whom did Roosevelt meet at this conference?
(a) Churchill and Blair
(b) Churchill and Eisenhower
(c) Eisenhower and Patton
(d) Churchill and Stalin

11. Who is blamed for black women quitting their jobs as domestics to work in factories?
(a) Franklin Roosevelt
(b) Eleanor Roosevelt
(c) Missy LeHand
(d) Lucy Mercer

12. Who was Fala?
(a) Roosevelt's dog
(b) Roosevelt's nickname for Churchill
(c) Lucy Mercer's dog
(d) Roosevelt's pet name for Eleanor

13. What does Roosevelt do for the first time at a joint session of Congress?
(a) Yells at the attendants
(b) Breaks down and cries
(c) Refuses to give a speech
(d) Appears in a wheelchair

14. What are Franklin and Eleanor planning?
(a) A family reunion
(b) A trip to London
(c) An anniversary party
(d) Their retirement

15. What subject did not garner much interest among Americans?
(a) The war effort in North Africa
(b) The FDIC
(c) Japanese art and culture
(d) The murder of Jewish people in Germany

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who led a miners' strike in June of 1943?

3. Who was with Roosevelt on his two-week vacation?

4. Who monitored Roosevelt's increasing periods of ill health?

5. Where does Franklin take a three-week vacation at the end of November 1944?

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