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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 22, “The Hot Weather Secretary”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to a levy on the unimproved value of land only?
(a) Personal value tax.
(b) Land immunity tax.
(c) Land levy accordance.
(d) Land value tax.

2. What was Grover Cleveland’s position when he served a summons to speak with Theodore Roosevelt in Albany in 1883?
(a) Governor of New York.
(b) President of the United States.
(c) Senator of New York.
(d) Mayor of New York City.

3. In 1886, Roosevelt ran as the Republican candidate for mayor of New York City, portraying himself as what persona?
(a) “The Cowboy of the Ivy League.”
(b) “The Future President.”
(c) “The Rancher Professor.”
(d) “The Cowboy of the Dakotas.”

4. Who won the election for the Mayor of New York in 1886?
(a) George Edmunds.
(b) Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice.
(c) Henry Cabot Lodge.
(d) Abram Hewitt.

5. Who did Theodore Roosevelt meet at a party that suggested Roosevelt accompany him to Dakota, according to the author in Chapter 7, “The Fighting Cock”?
(a) Commander Isaac Hunt.
(b) Commander James Smith.
(c) Commander H. H. Gorringe.
(d) Commander Charles Patterson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Theodore Roosevelt, as Assistant Secretary to the Navy, deliver an inciting speech speaking against Japan's presence in the Pacific?

2. As acting Secretary of the U.S. Navy, Roosevelt toured what new ship where he heard the cannons fire for the first time, according to the author in Chapter 22, “The Hot Weather Secretary”?

3. When was Henry George born?

4. When did the Navy’s battleship explode in Havana Harbor during Roosevelt’s post as Assistant Secretary of the Navy?

5. Theodore Roosevelt was appointed to the post of Assistant Secretary of the Navy in what year?

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