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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16, “The Silver-Plated Reform Commissioner”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term refers to the practice where a political party, after winning an election, gives government jobs to its voters as a reward for working toward victory?
(a) A commerce system.
(b) A spoils system.
(c) A ratchet system.
(d) A bias system.

2. In the beginning of Chapter 9, “The Honorable Gentleman,” the author describes Theodore Roosevelt returning to Albany to serve his what term as assemblyman?
(a) His fifth term.
(b) His third term.
(c) His fourth term.
(d) His second term.

3. As Civil Service Commissioner, Theodore Roosevelt confronted what potentially crooked Postmaster General in Milwaukee, according to the author in Chapter 16, “The Silver-Plated Reform Commissioner”?
(a) George Edmunds.
(b) George Paul.
(c) Seth Bullock.
(d) Frank Hatton.

4. Theodore Roosevelt, Senior received an appointment as Collector of Customs to the Port of New York by what U.S. President?
(a) Grover Cleveland.
(b) James Garfield.
(c) Rutherford B. Hayes.
(d) William McKinley.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was elected as Speaker in the New York Assembly in 1881 and 1882?

2. As a New York State Assemblyman, what nickname did Theodore Roosevelt gain for his habit of striking down the bills of others while drafting little legislation of his own?

3. What term refers to the widely held belief that American settlers were destined to expand across the continent?

4. In investigating corruption in the case of the Manhattan Elevated Railroad and the City of New York, Theodore Roosevelt’s findings demanded further investigation of what two individuals in 1881-1882?

5. What did Theodore Roosevelt’s mother die of on the same day that his wife died?

(see the answer key)

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