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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Ch. 6, Learning to be Useful.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Eleanor Roosevelt's philosophy about how different things work for different people?
(a) Everyone deserves a second chance
(b) Everyone is cut from the same cloth
(c) Everyone can succeed
(d) Everyone is an individual

2. According to Eleanor Roosevelt, what might retirement time be used for?
(a) a time to travel and learn
(b) a time to develop oneself yet again
(c) a time to develop new professional skills
(d) a time to unwind and finally relax

3. What does Eleanor Roosevelt consider essential to keeping people feeling alive?
(a) adventure
(b) passion
(c) growth
(d) prosperity

4. What does Eleanor Roosevelt discuss when she talks about usefulness being a type of love?
(a) her granddaughter visiting the local hospital
(b) her granddaughter organizing a picnic
(c) her granddaughter organizing family vacations
(d) her granddaughter visiting an orphanage

5. How did Eleanor Roosevelt train her memory as young child?
(a) she memorized the New Testament in French
(b) she memorized the New Testament in German
(c) she memorized the Old Testament in French
(d) she memorized the Old Testament in Flemish

Short Answer Questions

1. What conversational game does Ruth Bryan Rohde explain to Eleanor Roosevelt?

2. What essentially changes when family income changes?

3. After Eleanor's husband dies, who does she turn to in order to stave off loneliness?

4. What does Miss Hickok do to cope with her own personal health disaster?

5. What must parents know about their children that will help their children dismantle their own fears and inhibitions?

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