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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Miss Hickok lose?
(a) the use of her legs
(b) her hearing
(c) her speech
(d) her eyesight
2. According to Ms. Roosevelt, what does meeting and overcoming an impossible situation teach people?
(a) they will always come out ahead
(b) they might sometimes fail
(c) they can live through anything
(d) they are judged by their actions
3. What is the title of the poem that Mrs. Cowles younger sister writes about Mrs. Cowles?
(a) Fortunate Soldier
(b) Solider of Fortune
(c) Pain and Growth
(d) Soldier of Pain
4. What does James, Eleanor's son, have to do every day after becoming sick?
(a) eat a strict nutritional diet
(b) lie still for one hour each day
(c) take a daily nap
(d) go to be early every evening
5. Why do most people fear self-knoweldge?
(a) because they feel it is discovering secret things about themselves
(b) because they feel it is discovering only bad things about themselves
(c) because they fear knowing who they are
(d) because they fear losing love from others if they try
6. What does Eleanor do in order to attend the play in which she is forbidden to see?
(a) she steals
(b) she convinces her guardians to let her go
(c) she lies
(d) she becomes an actress
7. What does Miss Hickok do to cope with her own personal health disaster?
(a) she learns a new language
(b) she writes children's stories
(c) she starts a volunteer organization
(d) she creates art for children
8. Who raised Eleanor Roosevelt from the age of seven?
(a) her grandmother
(b) her cousin
(c) her aunt
(d) her father
9. What does Eleanor Roosevelt believe about defining the role of a mature person?
(a) it is nebulous
(b) it is different for every individual
(c) it is always definite and unchanging
(d) it is always in need of revision
10. According to Eleanor Roosevelt, how are most readjustments caused?
(a) by adolescence and change
(b) by domestic dispute
(c) by age and dying
(d) by war or relocation
11. According to Eleanor Roosevelt, what is self-knowledge mainly about?
(a) learning one's weaknesses
(b) learning one's fears
(c) learning one's desires
(d) learning one's inner strengths
12. What are many people afraid to use in their own lives that might truly benefit them and their personal dreams?
(a) their confidence
(b) their capabilities
(c) their talents
(d) their skills
13. Where does courage sometimes come from?
(a) sheer exasperation at the event that has occurred
(b) undeniable loneliness and hardship
(c) sheer desperation in having to face the inevitable
(d) sheer exhaustion and abandonment
14. What does Eleanor Roosevelt believe that one should do when dealing with the thing or event at hand?
(a) delegate
(b) give some effort and then move on
(c) break it into manageable pieces
(d) give it all of one's attention
15. What does Eleanor Roosevelt believe one should set one's values in life on?
(a) things that are satisfying to the individual
(b) things that are satisfying to one's marriage or family
(c) things that will placate the needs of children
(d) things that will placate the needs of others
Short Answer Questions
1. According to Eleanor Roosevelt, what is the best way people learn?
2. What is Eleanor Roosevelt's philosophy about how different things work for different people?
3. What is Eleanor Roosevelt terrified of as a young woman, but is forced to treat during World War I?
4. What do many people fear in regards to the world at large?
5. Why does Eleanor require James to read in the midst of the family?
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