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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. 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”?
(a) The Myriam Hotel.
(b) The Pyramid Park Hotel.
(c) The Jackson Cliff Tavern.
(d) The White Horse Tavern.

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

3. At what address did the Roosevelt family live when Theodore Roosevelt was born?
(a) 28 East 20th Street.
(b) 6 West 57th Street.
(c) 45 West 12th Street.
(d) 12 East 30th Street.

4. In what year did Theodore Roosevelt graduate magna cum laude from college?
(a) 1887.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1880.
(d) 1888.

5. 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) Portland, Maine.
(b) Beaverton, Maine.
(c) Lost Island, Maine.
(d) Island Falls, Maine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What name did Theodore Roosevelt plan to give to the estate that he built on Long Island for Alice Lee?

2. 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?

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

4. Theodore Roosevelt began his trip to the Dakota Territory at a rough hotel along the banks of what river, according to the author in Chapter 8, “The Dude from New York”?

5. Theodore Roosevelt’s ancestry has been described as half Irish and half what?

(see the answer key)

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