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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 trademark greeting is Theodore Roosevelt described as having used when shaking the hands of his visitors at the White House in the book’s Prologue?
(a) “Good to meet you!”
(b) “Ciao!”
(c) “Delighted!”
(d) “Hello!”’

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

3. 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.

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

5. What was the name of the second nature book that Theodore Roosevelt published while he was still enrolled in college?
(a) Some of the Birds of Oyster Bay.
(b) Hunting Tips of a Ranchman.
(c) The Summer Birds of the Adirondacks.
(d) A Biography of Gouveneur Morris.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where was Theodore Roosevelt’s mother from?

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

4. What was the name of the horse that Theodore Roosevelt had sent to Cambridge in order to pursue his courtship of Alice Lee?

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”?

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