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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. Who wrote “The Saga of King Olaf”?
(a) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
(b) Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
(c) Edith Wharton.
(d) Mark Twain.

2. Who won the Presidential election in 1884?
(a) George Edmunds.
(b) Grover Cleveland.
(c) Henry Cabot Lodge.
(d) Titus Sheard.

3. Who did Theodore Roosevelt become friends with during his early career as an assemblyman, who became Roosevelt’s first ally?
(a) George Edmunds.
(b) Seth Bullock.
(c) Charles Patterson.
(d) Isaac Hunt.

4. The Prologue of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt opens with a detailed description of President Roosevelt greeting guests on New Year’s Day of what year?
(a) 1892.
(b) 1914.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1907.

5. What term refers to the widely held belief that American settlers were destined to expand across the continent?
(a) Manifest Destiny.
(b) Indian Removal.
(c) Personal Utopia.
(d) Individual Right.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Theodore Roosevelt live while he studied in college?

2. On what date was Theodore Roosevelt born?

3. Thomas Roosevelt’s family largely spent their summers at an estate located where?

4. When Theodore Roosevelt returned Albany to the Republican Convention of 1884, he led the independents for what candidate?

5. While searching for the cattle thieves that he believed stole his boat, Theodore Roosevelt met and befriended what famous sheriff of Deadwood, South Dakota?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Theodore Roosevelt travel to the Dakotas, according to the author in Chapter 11, “The Cowboy of the Present”? What did he do there in this trip?

2. How is Theodore Roosevelt’s term as assemblyman described in 1883 in Chapter 7, “The Fighting Cock”?

3. How does the author describe Theodore Roosevelt’s impressions of Albany after arriving as an assemblyman in Chapter 6, “The Cyclone Assemblyman”?

4. What led Theodore Roosevelt to campaign in the New York Mayoral elections, according to the author in Chapter 14, “The Next Mayor of New York”?

5. What scenario does the author present surrounding Theodore Roosevelt in the Prologue of the biography? What setting is described?

6. What is revealed in the journal writings of Theodore Roosevelt in 1870, as seen in Chapter 2, “The Mind, but Not the Body”? What were his interests?

7. How does the author describe Theodore Roosevelt’s studies in his second year at Harvard? What job did his father take at this time?

8. Whom did Theodore Roosevelt hire as a local guide in the Dakota Territory on his first trip there, according to the author in Chapter 8, “The Dude from New York”? Where did he stay?

9. Where did the Roosevelt family travel in the fall of 1870? How does the author describe Theodore Roosevelt’s impressions of these locales in Chapter 2, “The Mind, but Not the Body”?

10. Where did Theodore and Alice Lee Roosevelt live after their wedding? Where did Roosevelt continue his studies?

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