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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. Following the death of his wife and mother, Theodore Roosevelt sold his house and his mother’s and moved his daughter and her caretaker to a smaller place located where in New York City?
(a) Brooklyn.
(b) Park Avenue.
(c) 123rd Street.
(d) Madison Avenue.

2. When Theodore Roosevelt returned to Medora in August of 1885, he found who in jail for murder?
(a) James G. Blaine.
(b) George Edmunds.
(c) Henry Cabot Lodge.
(d) Antoine Amedee Marie.

3. When was Henry George born?
(a) 1839.
(b) 1815.
(c) 1829.
(d) 1891.

4. Theodore Roosevelt’s ancestry has been described as half Irish and half what?
(a) French.
(b) English.
(c) Dutch.
(d) Spanish.

5. When Theodore Roosevelt first took his friends from Maine to his Elk Horn ranch in the Dakotas, he enjoyed much success as a hunter, even killing what?
(a) An elk.
(b) A buffalo.
(c) A mountain lion.
(d) A grizzly bear.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the highest mountain in Maine that Theodore Roosevelt set out to climb in his junior year of college?

2. At what time does the author describe Theodore Roosevelt as having concluded his hours of handshaking on New Year’s Day in the book’s Prologue?

3. 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?

4. What author is mentioned in the Prologue as having remarked negatively about President Theodore Roosevelt’s methodologies and called him “insane”?

5. Who was the Presidential nominee that was chosen at the 1884 Republican Convention?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How was Theodore Roosevelt’s involvement in politics in the Dakotas described in Chapter 13, “The Long Arm of the Law”?

3. What change did Roosevelt make to his studies in his junior year, and why?

4. How does the author describe Theodore Roosevelt’s courtship with Alice Lee in Chapter 4, “The Swell in the Dog-Cart”?

5. 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?

6. Who did Theodore Roosevelt support in the 1884 Presidential election? Who won the nomination?

7. 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”?

8. What led Theodore Roosevelt to return to New York from the Dakotas in Chapter 12, “The Four-Eyed Maverick”?

9. Who did Theodore Roosevelt make campaign speeches for when he returned East from the Dakotas in Chapter 11, “The Cowboy of the Present”?

10. Who took custody of Theodore Roosevelt’s infant daughter after the death of his wife Alice Lee Roosevelt? Where did his daughter live?

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