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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Ch. 8, How to Get the Best Out of People.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Eleanor Roosevelt say is a mistake to never make when traveling abroad?
(a) not knowing the customs of other people
(b) eating the wrong foods
(c) attempting a language that you do not know
(d) drinking the water in underdeveloped countries

2. What profession is Helen Gahagan Douglass professionally trained for?
(a) a nurse
(b) a schoolteacher
(c) a seamstress
(d) an actress

3. What play is Eleanor Roosevelt forbidden to attend?
(a) The Cherry Orchard
(b) Much Ado About Nothing
(c) Antigone
(d) Tess of of D'Urbervilles

4. What must the foreign doctor Eleanor Roosevelt speaks of do upon immigration to the United States?
(a) work for the government
(b) lose his religion
(c) restudy medicine
(d) leave his family behind

5. Whose actions does Eleanor Roosevelt mimic in the White House so as to pay attention to individuals instead of groups of people?
(a) Queen Elizabeth
(b) The Secretary of State
(c) Her grandmother
(d) Her husband, the President of the United States

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Miss Hickok lose?

2. According to Ms. Roosevelt, what does meeting and overcoming an impossible situation teach people?

3. What historical people does Eleanor Roosevelt compare the modern world to in regards to describing the irrationality of fear?

4. What does Eleanor do in order to attend the play in which she is forbidden to see?

5. What does Eleanor Roosevelt think mankind should do with those who are ready to retire?

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