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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What skill is important to teach children at an early age?
(a) to be patient
(b) to work hard to reap the benefits
(c) to think for themselves
(d) to get along with others

2. What is necessary to do before entering public service?
(a) volunteer as much as possible
(b) obtain a graduate degree
(c) save enough money to support oneself
(d) tie up loose ends from the past that can be used against you

3. Who does Eleanor Roosevelt reuse to walk behind as an example of showing disapproval in an inoffensive way when in a different country?
(a) the Buddhist priest in Thailand
(b) a Senator at the White House
(c) a young woman in Bombay
(d) the men in Japan

4. Why is Eleanor Roosevelt filled with misgivings at the end of her book?
(a) she fears she will lose her readership
(b) she wants to write more about her personal life
(c) she feels she has written nothing new
(d) she wonders how the book will be accepted

5. How do people create themselves?
(a) through the choices they make
(b) through their beliefs and skills
(c) through the people they meet
(d) through their individual talents

6. Which organization is responsible for organizing a model assembly where each student represents a different country?
(a) The Rotary Club
(b) The model United Nations
(c) The Girl Scouts
(d) The Boys and Girls Club of America

7. What profession is Helen Gahagan Douglass professionally trained for?
(a) a schoolteacher
(b) a seamstress
(c) a nurse
(d) an actress

8. What does Eleanor Roosevelt say is important to work for when working for a group?
(a) work towards the result not the credit
(b) work towards honoring others for the work they've done
(c) work towards the opportunity that might arise
(d) work toward receiving credit for the work

9. Who does Eleanor Roosevelt give as an example of true success, even though he is buried in a pauper's grave?
(a) Mozart
(b) Beethoven
(c) Bach
(d) Handel

10. What is the key to success in democracy, according to Thomas Jefferson?
(a) responsibility for family
(b) responsibility for fiscal spending
(c) responsibility for well-being
(d) responsibility of learning

11. How can politics turn unsavory?
(a) through economic corruption
(b) through bribery
(c) through favoritism
(d) through bipartisanship

12. What does Eleanor Roosevelt believe about other people's opinions?
(a) seek to placate people's opinions
(b) mean well in actions and the opinions will be positive
(c) seek personal approval first
(d) not to worry about them only mean well in actions

13. What does Eleanor Roosevelt learn that children are not born to be, but are taught to be through society?
(a) frugality
(b) racism
(c) affectation
(d) prejudice

14. Why do so few people become public servants?
(a) because the risk is bigger than the reward
(b) because it is hard work
(c) because it is public work
(d) because it holds an uncertain future

15. What type of behavior is surprisingly less proportionate among the poor because children feel they are needed by their family?
(a) delinquency
(b) over-achieving
(c) egotism
(d) addiction

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eleanor Roosevelt say is an important subject to study in order to become more informed about politics?

2. Where is conformity most promoted and almost desired?

3. What does Eleanor Roosevelt discuss when she talks about usefulness being a type of love?

4. What does America owe public servants?

5. Where does Harry Belafonte perform in order to be useful and bring love and respect to the world?

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