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

2. What must a public servant have the elasticity and flexibility of mind to face?
(a) a distant family life
(b) a demanding boss
(c) a changing world
(d) a greedy public

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

4. What does Eleanor Roosevelt say that being an individual is mostly about, besides being a right?
(a) a privilege
(b) a travesty
(c) an obligation
(d) a joy

5. In what country does Eleanor Roosevelt blunder?
(a) Laos
(b) Thailand
(c) Vietnam
(d) Cambodia

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eleanor Roosevelt say is necessary about working in the modern world with different cultures and different races?

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

3. How does Eleanor Roosevelt's mother's cousin react after her husband's death?

4. What do young people most believe in?

5. What does the absurdity of wearing silly hats during a family meeting prevent?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why doe few people deliberately prepare to become public servants?

2. How does Eleanor Roosevelt believe people should regard their mistakes?

3. What is the key to democracy, according to Thomas Jefferson?

4. What is the definition of usefulness in the book?

5. Why is the United States often despised by other nations?

6. What inspiration does the Queen Mother Elizabeth of England give to Eleanor Roosevelt?

7. What are several things that one must face before becoming a public servant?

8. What is the chief duty of a citizen?

9. What are the main expectations for a congressman or senator?

10. What does Eleanor Roosevelt have to say about the weight of delinquency and how it begins?

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