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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What do people often blame others for?
(a) their health
(b) their mistakes
(c) their responsibilities
(d) their grief

5. What anecdote does Eleanor Roosevelt give about meeting less dramatic needs everyday?
(a) the boys who babysits
(b) the girl who gets stuck between trains
(c) the boy at the post office
(d) the girl at the hospital

6. How has the United States behaved in decision making at the United Nations
(a) obliging
(b) forceful
(c) flexible
(d) domineering

7. What does Eleanor Roosevelt consider is a great danger?
(a) the loss of self-respect
(b) the loss of a parent
(c) the loss of individuality
(d) the loss of innocence

8. When does the Soviet Union begin reconditioning men to iron out uniqueness?
(a) as babies
(b) as young adults
(c) as military candidates
(d) as children

9. What state does Eleanor Roosevelt say is easy and even fatal to slip into?
(a) self-defeating behaviors
(b) self-absorption
(c) self-analysis
(d) self-importance

10. What must a family be willing to accept when a member decides to become a public servant?
(a) accept their financial hardship
(b) accept their way of life
(c) accept their emotional distance
(d) accept their travel schedule

11. Where does Eleanor Roosevelt work to feel useful?
(a) Hospice
(b) Orphanages in Mexico
(c) The Daughters of the Revolution
(d) The Consumer's League

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

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

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

15. What does Eleanor Roosevelt mimic in Bombay that brings her an ovation?
(a) their greeting
(b) their cooking skills
(c) their religion
(d) their language

Short Answer Questions

1. What skill is important to teach children at an early age?

2. Children must learn to face responsibility for their actions, but what is also important to allow them to make?

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

4. What does Eleanor Roosevelt consider herself to be?

5. Why is Eleanor Roosevelt filled with misgivings at the end of her book?

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