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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, “The Cyclone Assemblyman”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of Theodore Roosevelt’s mother?
(a) Mary Elizabeth Roosevelt.
(b) Martha Bulloch Roosevelt.
(c) Sarah Eleanor Roosevelt.
(d) Maria Bertrand Roosevelt.

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

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”?
(a) Beaverton, Maine.
(b) Portland, Maine.
(c) Lost Island, Maine.
(d) Island Falls, Maine.

4. What was the first work that Theodore Roosevelt published following his first year at 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. While on his spring tour honeymoon of Europe with his wife Alice, Theodore Roosevelt learned of whose assassination?

2. Who was elected as Speaker in the New York Assembly in 1881 and 1882?

3. What new hobby did Theodore Roosevelt undertake in 1870?

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

5. The Prologue of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt opens with a detailed description of President Roosevelt greeting guests on New Year’s Day of what year?

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