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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Ch. 4, The Difficult Art of Maturity.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is overcoming one's fears considered, if looked at it positively?
(a) a solution
(b) a lesson
(c) a victory
(d) a challenge

2. 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 avid desire to experience all she could deeply
(d) an incessant determination to achieve

3. How is one's philosophy best expressed?
(a) by the obstacles thrown in their path
(b) by the choices one makes
(c) by the choices made by others
(d) by the circumstances set before them

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

5. According to Eleanor Roosevelt, what is self-knowledge mainly about?
(a) learning one's desires
(b) learning one's weaknesses
(c) learning one's fears
(d) learning one's inner strengths

Short Answer Questions

1. How do unhappy people treat their time?

2. Above all else, what does Eleanor Roosevelt wish for all her reader do in regard to the uses of time?

3. What does Eleanor Roosevelt overhear her youngest son praise about having chance to pursue because of the support he received from his parents?

4. Who is the author of "You Learn By Living"?

5. What kind of advice does Eleanor Roosevelt offer to her readers?

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