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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. In the Dakota Territory, Roosevelt enjoyed celebrity status for his capture of the cattle thieves who stole his boat. He was then asked to give a speech at a political celebration in what town on July 4, according to the author in Chapter 13, “The Long Arm of the Law”?
(a) Dickinson.
(b) Westport.
(c) Winley.
(d) Jamestown.

2. Who did Theodore Roosevelt campaign for in the 1888 Presidential election?
(a) Thomas Hart Benton.
(b) James G. Blaine.
(c) Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice.
(d) Benjamin Harrison.

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

4. What was the first work that Theodore Roosevelt published following his first year at college?
(a) Some of the Birds of Oyster Bay.
(b) Hunting Tips of a Ranchman.
(c) The Summer Birds of the Adirondacks.
(d) A Biography of Gouveneur Morris.

5. Who was elected as Speaker in the New York Assembly in 1881 and 1882?
(a) George Edmunds.
(b) Benjamin Harrison.
(c) Isaac Hunt.
(d) Charles Patterson.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Theodore Roosevelt’s daughter Alice Lee Roosevelt born?

2. Who beat Theodore Roosevelt for the position of Speaker of the New York State Assembly in 1884?

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

4. When Theodore Roosevelt returned to New York from the Dakotas in 1885-1886, a publisher contracted him to write a biography of whom?

5. Who were the other Civil Service Commissioners alongside Theodore Roosevelt?

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