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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Ch. 7, The Right to be an Individual.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does self-knowledge require?
(a) inner calm
(b) heroics
(c) acceptance
(d) humility

2. What does Eleanor Roosevelt say is necessary to accept if one is to obtain self-knowledge?
(a) one's own anger
(b) one's own individuality
(c) one's own limitations
(d) one's own pride

3. What instigated the writing of "You Learn By Living"?
(a) a request by the President
(b) a response to criticism
(c) a response to letters
(d) a response to the people's despair

4. What does James, Eleanor's son, have to do every day after becoming sick?
(a) lie still for one hour each day
(b) eat a strict nutritional diet
(c) take a daily nap
(d) go to be early every evening

5. What are the two types of social conformity that Eleanor Roosevelt discusses?
(a) economic conformity and conformity to alien standards
(b) ethical conformity and political conformity
(c) conformity to alien standards and moral conformity
(d) social conformity and conformity to alien standards

Short Answer Questions

1. What is essentially easier and more exhilarating than fear?

2. What do Eleanor Roosevelt's children think of her friends?

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

4. What does Eleanor Roosevelt claim is inevitable?

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

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