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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 23, “The Lieutenant Colonel”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The U.S. Army Colonel who helped Theodore Roosevelt form the Rough Riders formerly held what position?
(a) Assistant Secretary of the Central Intelligence Agency.
(b) Assistant Attending Surgeon to the President.
(c) Secretary of the Federal Bureau of Investigations.
(d) Secretary of Immigration Reform.

2. Who was the Secretary of the Navy when Theodore Roosevelt was appointed Assistant Secretary?
(a) George Edmunds.
(b) Seth Bullock.
(c) Titus Sheard.
(d) John D. Long.

3. When was the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act established?
(a) 1888.
(b) 1895.
(c) 1885.
(d) 1883.

4. What hunter-conservationist organization did Theodore Roosevelt found in 1887?
(a) The National Commission for Ecology.
(b) The Boone and Crockett Club.
(c) The Western Frontier Society.
(d) The Audubon Society.

5. What local tycoon and Frenchmen challenged Theodore Roosevelt’s newest land claim in the Dakotas, according to the author in Chapter 11, “The Cowboy of the Present”?
(a) Henry Cabot Lodge.
(b) James G. Blaine.
(c) Titus Sheard.
(d) Antoine Amedee Marie.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Theodore Roosevelt returned to New York from the Dakotas in 1885-1886, a publisher contracted him to write a biography of whom?

2. How many volumes comprised The Winning of the West by Theodore Roosevelt?

3. 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”?

4. Which of the New York Police Commissioners does the phrase “snake in the grass” refer to in Chapter 20, “The Snake in the Grass”?

5. How old was future first lady Eleanor Roosevelt at the time of Ulysses Grant’s funeral?

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