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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 name did Theodore Roosevelt plan to give to the estate that he built on Long Island for Alice Lee?
(a) Stratford.
(b) Leeholm.
(c) White Cliff.
(d) Great Land.

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) Golden Rod.
(b) Blackie.
(c) Lightfoot.
(d) Black Beauty.

3. On what date was Theodore Roosevelt born?
(a) February 12, 1840.
(b) October 27, 1858.
(c) October 28, 1881.
(d) October 21, 1841.

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”?
(a) The Little Missouri River.
(b) The Colorado River.
(c) The Arkansas River.
(d) The Klamath River.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At what address did the Roosevelt family live when Theodore Roosevelt was born?

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. By what nickname was Theodore Roosevelt’s sister, Anna Roosevelt, known?

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

5. 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”?

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