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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What animal did Elliott hunt?

2. Theodore judged a third of the members of the Assembly to be what?

3. Who was kept up to date on family events through letters?

4. Who did Theodore become engaged to?

5. What did Marquis de Mores build on the plains?

Short Essay Questions

1. Compare and contrast Elliott and Theodore in the events of Chapter 11. How are they similar or different?

2. What was the Cigar Bill? How was Theodore involved with this bill?

3. How does Theodore react to Alice's death? What decisions are made in the family?

4. What activities does Theodore become involved with in Chapter 13? What activities does he begin to give up?

5. How did Theodore get involved in politics? Who supported this? Who did not?

6. How were Theodore's last two years at Harvard different from the first two? How were they similar?

7. What challenges were present in Theodore and Alice's relationship? How did Theodore overcome these?

8. What post was Theodore nominated for? What happened? Who did he become engaged to? Why was the family taken back by this?

9. What did Theodore do in the West? How did his business there end?

10. What happens to Mittie and Alice? What are they ill with?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What was Theodore's connection to the West? How did he describe ranchmen? Do you think Theodore fit the criteria for ranchmen? Why or why not? What do you think Theodore liked about the West?

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the lives and activities of the two Roosevelt boys (Theodore and Elliott) and the two girls (Bamie and Corinne). What differences in their activities and the expectations that others had for them existed? Why do you think these differences were present?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the family dynamics in the Roosevelt family. What were the four children like? What challenges did the family face? How did they deal with these challenges?

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