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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Eleanor Roosevelt, what is the most obvious form of readjustment?
(a) readjustment for adolescence
(b) readjustment for learning a new skill
(c) readjustment for reaching a goal
(d) readjustment for aging

2. What condition is the worst stumbling block for most people?
(a) loneliness
(b) anxiety
(c) depression
(d) fear

3. What does Eleanor Roosevelt offer in order to steer others from pitfalls?
(a) prayers
(b) guideposts
(c) sayings
(d) hard and fast rules

4. From whom does Eleanor Roosevelt inherit her good will?
(a) her husband
(b) her female friends
(c) her children
(d) her mentors

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

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

7. What kinds of experience must people learn from?
(a) professional experiences
(b) marital and family experiences
(c) all of their experiences
(d) personal experiences

8. Why do most people fear self-knoweldge?
(a) because they feel it is discovering only bad things about themselves
(b) because they feel it is discovering secret things about themselves
(c) because they fear knowing who they are
(d) because they fear losing love from others if they try

9. What are the best years of a women's life?
(a) it varies by the individual
(b) it depends on when a woman finds her true calling
(c) a woman who is raising children
(d) a woman who is about to marry

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

11. What does Eleanor Roosevelt say that one must not demand from others?
(a) what others labor to give
(b) what others cannot give
(c) what others hope to give
(d) what others refuse to give

12. What does a parent's interests and array of different friends do for children?
(a) broadens their sense of self
(b) broadens their horizons
(c) makes them feel safe
(d) challenges them to be their best

13. According to Eleanor's teacher, what must children do with the information they learn?
(a) they must use it as a building block
(b) they must immerse themselves in it
(c) they must never forget it
(d) the must relate to it

14. What example does Eleanor Roosevelt use as a way to describe how to accept others?
(a) husbands forgetting to clean up after themselves
(b) husbands forgetting birthdays and anniversaries
(c) husbands not helping with raising children
(d) husbands not willing to cook and clean

15. What essentially changes when family income changes?
(a) one's sense of meaning
(b) one's sense of purpose
(c) one's sense of values
(d) one's sense of pride

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eleanor Roosevelt believe that one should do when dealing with the thing or event at hand?

2. What does Ms. Roosevelt say is more important than experience, especially in children?

3. According to Eleanor Roosevelt, what might retirement time be used for?

4. What does Eleanor Roosevelt claim is inevitable?

5. Who's book does Eleanor Roosevelt accidentally tear a page in and is overwhelmed at the thought of displeasing them?

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