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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Ch. 11, Learning to be a Public Servant and Afterword.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Eleanor Roosevelt, what is the best way people learn?
(a) by rigorous challenges
(b) through watching others fail
(c) through their own mistakes
(d) by mentorship

2. What does Eleanor Roosevelt say is a mistake to never make when traveling abroad?
(a) drinking the water in underdeveloped countries
(b) attempting a language that you do not know
(c) not knowing the customs of other people
(d) eating the wrong foods

3. What does Eleanor Roosevelt say should be interwoven into an organized stretch of time so as to prepare for unexpected things?
(a) flexibility
(b) Plan B
(c) tight details
(d) empty time slots

4. After one has children of their own, what does Eleanor Roosevelt guard against?
(a) alienating her husband
(b) allowing the child to run the house
(c) giving up one's friends and interests
(d) listening only to her female friends and not her family

5. What will mature people do for themselves even though no one else may see or even notice?
(a) eliminate emotional baggage
(b) eliminate faults in others
(c) eliminate potential challenges and obstacles
(d) eliminate faults in themselves

Short Answer Questions

1. What is necessary to do before entering public service?

2. How does Eleanor Roosevelt overcome her fear of nearly everything as a timid child?

3. What do people often blame others for?

4. What does America owe public servants?

5. How does one young man offend an office full of people in Japan?

(see the answer key)

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