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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 kind of fears do more harm?
(a) imaginary fears
(b) irrational fears
(c) unresolved fears
(d) reasonable fears

2. According to Eleanor Roosevelt, how are most readjustments caused?
(a) by age and dying
(b) by domestic dispute
(c) by war or relocation
(d) by adolescence and change

3. Where does courage sometimes come from?
(a) sheer desperation in having to face the inevitable
(b) sheer exhaustion and abandonment
(c) sheer exasperation at the event that has occurred
(d) undeniable loneliness and hardship

4. What does Eleanor Roosevelt say is the most influential factor in her life?
(a) a desire to be the best
(b) a drive to affect change on a political level
(c) an incessant determination to achieve
(d) an avid desire to experience all she could deeply

5. What makes the inevitable and natural experience of death easier according to Eleanor Roosevelt?
(a) belief in God
(b) one's own inner calm
(c) good friends
(d) a strong family

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Eleanor Roosevelt diminish her fear of the dark?

2. What is Eleanor Roosevelt's philosophy about how different things work for different people?

3. What do many people fear in regards to the world at large?

4. What is usefulness a form of?

5. What kind of person does Eleanor Roosevelt describe as being unhappy and thus having no idea what to do with their time?

(see the answer key)

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