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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Eleanor Roosevelt claim she does not have in regards to life and living?
(a) coping skills
(b) prestige
(c) all the answers
(d) happiness

2. 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

3. What does Miss Hickok lose?
(a) her hearing
(b) her speech
(c) the use of her legs
(d) her eyesight

4. What else do people need in conjunction with a book education?
(a) people need to see examples for themselves
(b) people need the stimulus of a heirarchy to climb
(c) people need the stimulus of the exchanging of ideas with others
(d) people need to experience the kinesthetics of an event to fully understand

5. How does Eleanor Roosevelt describe the art of maturity?
(a) decisive
(b) clever
(c) elegant
(d) difficult

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What are the three environments in which people obtain their education?

3. What is overcoming one's fears considered, if looked at it positively?

4. What is every individual responsible for?

5. What is Eleanor Roosevelt terrified of as a young woman, but is forced to treat during World War I?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the anecdote that illustrates overcoming fear through self-discipline?

2. Describe what the book provides for the individual reader?

3. What does Eleanor Roosevelt warn against when one begins to have children and start a family and why does she suggest this?

4. Why is the question "why"? so important?

5. What is Eleanor Roosevelt's first tip on how to use time wisely and what is the example that she uses to illustrate her point?

6. What does Eleanor Roosevelt say is necessary to accept in oneself and in others in order to grow into a mature individual?

7. What is the fourth tip and example that Eleanor Roosevelt gives about using time wisely?

8. What does Eleanor Roosevelt feel is needed in addition to a book education?

9. What does Eleanor Roosevelt feel is the most influential factor in her life that has lead to her success?

10. Eleanor Roosevelt says that courage comes from sheer desperation in having to face the inevitable. How does she demonstrate this principle?

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