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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, “The Swell in the Dog-Cart”.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The author describes an incident in Liverpool when Theodore Roosevelt was turned down by a vendor when he went to purchase what substance in Chapter 2, “The Mind, but Not the Body”?
(a) Arsenic.
(b) Formaldehyde.
(c) Morphine.
(d) Cannabis.

3. Theodore Roosevelt’s ancestry has been described as half Irish and half what?
(a) Dutch.
(b) Spanish.
(c) English.
(d) French.

4. Who wrote “The Saga of King Olaf”?
(a) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
(b) Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
(c) Mark Twain.
(d) Edith Wharton.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date was Theodore Roosevelt born?

2. What was the name of Theodore Roosevelt’s wife when he held the office of United States President?

3. 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”?

4. What university did Theodore Roosevelt attend?

5. What author is mentioned in the Prologue as having remarked negatively about President Theodore Roosevelt’s methodologies and called him “insane”?

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