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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was under construction on the west side of Central Park?
(a) American Museum of Natural History
(b) American Insitute of Modern Art
(c) National Institute of Art
(d) National Museum of American History

2. What color did Mittie like to wear?
(a) Red
(b) Green
(c) Black
(d) White

3. Who was the New York Reform Club's candidate?
(a) Henry Jackson
(b) George Beez
(c) Benjamin H. Bristow
(d) Peter Alexander

4. Bamie was ill with what disease?
(a) Polio
(b) Asthma
(c) Cancer
(d) Pott's disease

5. Who died in 1871?
(a) Mittie Roosevelt
(b) Bamie
(c) Cornelius Van Schaack Roosevelt
(d) Elliott

6. Who had been the leading candidate for the nomination?
(a) Roscoe Conkling
(b) Benjamin H. Bristow
(c) James G. Blaine
(d) Chester Arthur

7. How did Theodore avoid fighting in the Civil War?
(a) He shot himself in the foot
(b) His Diabetes kept him from serving
(c) He fled to Canada
(d) He hired a substitute

8. Teedie changed what in his letters sent home to his family?
(a) The name he signed the letters with
(b) The university he sent the letters from
(c) His penmenship
(d) The stationery he used

9. What word best describes Ellie as a child?
(a) Shy
(b) Kind
(c) Small
(d) Ugly

10. Teedie was born in what year?
(a) 1864
(b) 1886
(c) 1822
(d) 1858

11. The best times for the family were spent where?
(a) The Gulf of Mexico
(b) Grand River
(c) Lake Michigan
(d) Oyster Bay

12. Where did Mittie take Teedie to help his asthma?
(a) Swiss Alps
(b) Scotland
(c) Greece
(d) Arizona

13. Who was the family greeted by in Europe?
(a) General Grant and his wife
(b) Mrs. Lincoln
(c) Captain James Bulloch and Irvine
(d) Mittie's father, Grant

14. Who opposed Theodore's appointment to the post he was being considered for?
(a) Mittie
(b) President Hayes
(c) Senator Conkling
(d) John Jay

15. What word best describes Teedie at the age of ten?
(a) Large
(b) Confident
(c) Nervous
(d) Outgoing

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the family go in October 1872?

2. Where did Bamie go when war broke out between France and Prussia?

3. What did the family do on summer mornings?

4. What did CVS Roosevelt give to Theodore, Sr. and his wife as a wedding gift?

5. How old was Theodore when he first met Mittie?

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