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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 conversational game does Ruth Bryan Rohde explain to Eleanor Roosevelt?
(a) the numbers game
(b) the alphabet game
(c) the game of telephone
(d) the name game

2. According to Ms. Roosevelt, what must people acquire the ability to do?
(a) learn new skills in adulthood
(b) adjust through old age
(c) cope with disaster
(d) raise children who are independent

3. How does Eleanor Roosevelt overcome her fear of nearly everything as a timid child?
(a) through self-discipline
(b) through self-preservation
(c) through self-esteem
(d) through self-efficacy

4. What type of behavior is surprisingly less proportionate among the poor because children feel they are needed by their family?
(a) addiction
(b) egotism
(c) over-achieving
(d) delinquency

5. What is the title of the poem that Mrs. Cowles younger sister writes about Mrs. Cowles?
(a) Fortunate Soldier
(b) Soldier of Pain
(c) Solider of Fortune
(d) Pain and Growth

Short Answer Questions

1. What must the foreign doctor Eleanor Roosevelt speaks of do upon immigration to the United States?

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

3. What do many American businessmen do which alienates their wives and denies their children of a relationship with their father?

4. What state does Eleanor Roosevelt say is easy and even fatal to slip into?

5. What are the best years of a women's life?

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