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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

4. Who was with Roosevelt on his two-week vacation?
(a) Eleanor Roosevelt
(b) Missy LeHand
(c) Lucy Mercer
(d) Lorena Hickok

5. For what cause does Eleanor continue to fight on the home front?
(a) The Red Cross
(b) League of Women Voters
(c) Civil Rights
(d) Budget minded dinners

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

7. Where do Franklin and Eleanor meet with the Churchills in August of 1944?
(a) New York
(b) Vancouver
(c) Quebec
(d) Maine

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

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

10. In what year did Lucy Mercer die?
(a) 1968
(b) 1958
(c) 1950
(d) 1948

11. Where does Franklin take a three-week vacation at the end of November 1944?
(a) Campobello Island
(b) Warm Springs, Georgia
(c) Provo, Utah
(d) Burlington, Vermont

12. What torments Eleanor at the beginning of Chapter 22?
(a) Diabetes
(b) Identity crisis
(c) Political detractors
(d) Civil Rights opponents

13. Who was Roosevelt's Republican opponent in the presidential election of 1944?
(a) Dwight D. Eisenhower
(b) Teddy Roosevelt
(c) Thomas Dewey
(d) George Patton

14. Who visited Roosevelt under an assumed name?
(a) Missy LeHand
(b) Lucy Mercer
(c) Gloria Swanson
(d) Winston Churchill

15. Where is Roosevelt given a physical at the urging of his daughter, Anna?
(a) Columbia Medical Center
(b) Johns Hopkins
(c) Duke University
(d) Bethesda Naval Hospital

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Roosevelt try to arrange before the Congressional election in 1942?

2. What is noteworthy about the new defense plants?

3. Where are Franklin and Eleanor at the beginning of Chapter 24?

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

5. By the end of 1942, how many Jews were estimated to have been killed by the Germans?

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