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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 best way people learn?
(a) through their own mistakes
(b) through watching others fail
(c) by mentorship
(d) by rigorous challenges

2. According to Ms. Roosevelt, what must people acquire the ability to do?
(a) learn new skills in adulthood
(b) cope with disaster
(c) raise children who are independent
(d) adjust through old age

3. 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

4. What kind of advice does Eleanor Roosevelt offer to her readers?
(a) solution-seeking advice
(b) humanitarian advice
(c) challenging advice
(d) self-improvement advice

5. What quality does a mature person have that specifically sets them apart from the others?
(a) self-knowledge
(b) self - control
(c) self-respect
(d) self-esteem

6. What does Eleanor Roosevelt say is the most influential factor in her life?
(a) an incessant determination to achieve
(b) an avid desire to experience all she could deeply
(c) a desire to be the best
(d) a drive to affect change on a political level

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

8. 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

9. After Eleanor's husband dies, who does she turn to in order to stave off loneliness?
(a) her neighbor
(b) her secretary
(c) her doctor
(d) her children

10. Who raised Eleanor Roosevelt from the age of seven?
(a) her aunt
(b) her cousin
(c) her father
(d) her grandmother

11. What does Eleanor Roosevelt believe one should set one's values in life on?
(a) things that will placate the needs of others
(b) things that are satisfying to one's marriage or family
(c) things that will placate the needs of children
(d) things that are satisfying to the individual

12. What must the foreign doctor Eleanor Roosevelt speaks of do upon immigration to the United States?
(a) leave his family behind
(b) lose his religion
(c) work for the government
(d) restudy medicine

13. What does Ms. Roosevelt say is more important than experience, especially in children?
(a) an open mind
(b) a good heart
(c) stamina
(d) imagination

14. What is retirement, according to Eleanor Roosevelt?
(a) a time to do what one finally wants to do
(b) a waste of resources
(c) a waste of good health
(d) a time to excel to ones potential

15. What is essentially easier and more exhilarating than fear?
(a) success
(b) courage
(c) tenacity
(d) perseverance

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Ms. Roosevelt, what are the most important ingredients in a child's education?

2. What does James, Eleanor's son, have to do every day after becoming sick?

3. What instigated the writing of "You Learn By Living"?

4. What are many people afraid to use in their own lives that might truly benefit them and their personal dreams?

5. What does Miss Hickok do to cope with her own personal health disaster?

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