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

2. What was the name of the horse that Theodore Roosevelt had sent to Cambridge in order to pursue his courtship of Alice Lee?
(a) Blackie.
(b) Black Beauty.
(c) Lightfoot.
(d) Golden Rod.

3. What university did Theodore Roosevelt attend?
(a) Rutgers University.
(b) Yale University.
(c) Brown University.
(d) Harvard University.

4. From whose brother did Theodore Roosevelt purchase the lands in the Dakota Territory that he planned to use as a cattle ranch?
(a) Isaac Hunt’s.
(b) Charles Patterson’s.
(c) Joe Ferris’s.
(d) James Wilson’s.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Theodore Roosevelt hire as a local guide on his first trip to the Dakota Territory?

2. Where did Roosevelt retreat after bribes were placed to block the impeachment of a Superior Court Judge that Roosevelt investigated, according to the author in Chapter 6, “The Cyclone Assemblyman”?

3. Who did Theodore Roosevelt become friends with during his early career as an assemblyman, who became Roosevelt’s first ally?

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

5. Where did Theodore Roosevelt live while he studied in college?

(see the answer key)

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