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

2. What is overcoming one's fears considered, if looked at it positively?
(a) a solution
(b) a victory
(c) a lesson
(d) a challenge

3. According to Ms. Roosevelt, what does meeting and overcoming an impossible situation teach people?
(a) they can live through anything
(b) they are judged by their actions
(c) they might sometimes fail
(d) they will always come out ahead

4. What does Eleanor Roosevelt encourage her readers to take into consideration when they weight the content of her book?
(a) that one method can be limiting
(b) that one method is the best solution for learning
(c) that one method does not work for everyone
(d) that one method is how she became successful

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of advice does Eleanor Roosevelt offer to her readers?

2. According to Eleanor's teacher, what must children do with the information they learn?

3. According to Eleanor Roosevelt, when someone lets another person down, what is the best way to handle that situation?

4. What type of book is "You Learn By Living"?

5. What does Eleanor Roosevelt say should be interwoven into an organized stretch of time so as to prepare for unexpected things?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the story about how Eleanor Roosevelt became interested in politics about on a moral level?

2. What does Laura say to her nieces and nephews who come to visit about arriving late and having no time?

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

4. According to Eleanor Roosevelt, why do most people fear self-knolwedge?

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

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 was the inspiration behind Eleanor Roosevelt's decision to write "You Learn by Living" ?

8. What does Eleanor Roosevelt offer to people to help steer them from pitfalls?

9. What does Eleanor Roosevelt say about death, especially after the loss of her husband?

10. What do mature people attempt to eliminate in their lives and how does it help the individual?

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