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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, “The Dude from New York”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the winter when Theodore Roosevelt was wooing Alice Lee, he took a vacation to what location in Maine, according to the author in Chapter 4, “The Swell in the Dog-Cart”?
(a) Island Falls, Maine.
(b) Beaverton, Maine.
(c) Portland, Maine.
(d) Lost Island, Maine.

2. 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) William McKinley.
(c) Rutherford B. Hayes.
(d) James Garfield.

3. In how many of his seven subjects did Theodore Roosevelt earn honors at the completion of his freshman year in college?
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 7.
(d) 5.

4. Thomas Roosevelt’s family largely spent their summers at an estate located where?
(a) Richfield Springs, New York.
(b) Oyster Bay, New York.
(c) Coney Island, New York.
(d) Brighton Beach, New York.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Theodore Roosevelt’s first trip to the Dakota Territory began at what rough establishment described as a room full of cots in Chapter 8, “The Dude from New York”?

2. What was the name of Theodore Roosevelt’s mother?

3. What was the name of the second nature book that Theodore Roosevelt published while he was still enrolled in college?

4. When Theodore Roosevelt first arrived in Albany as an assemblyman, he was compared by his fellow assemblyman to what contemporary writer of the time?

5. In what year did Theodore Roosevelt graduate magna cum laude from college?

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