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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. What author is mentioned in the Prologue as having remarked negatively about President Theodore Roosevelt’s methodologies and called him “insane”?
(a) Mark Twain.
(b) Rudyard Kipling.
(c) Edgar Allan Poe.
(d) Edith Wharton.

2. With the aid of what U.S. Army Colonel did Theodore Roosevelt assemble volunteers to form the First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry Regiment?
(a) Thomas Hart Benton.
(b) Leonard Wood.
(c) George Edmunds.
(d) James G. Blaine.

3. As New York City Police Commissioner, one of Roosevelt's most effective means of rooting out corruption proved to be his own night patrols. The first night, he warned how many delinquent officers of repercussions, according to the author in “Chapter 19, “The Biggest Man in New York”?
(a) 5.
(b) 10.
(c) 9.
(d) 6.

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

5. On what date did Theodore Roosevelt’s brother die?
(a) December 7, 1892.
(b) December 2, 1886.
(c) August 14, 1894.
(d) September 13, 1887.

Short Answer Questions

1. Thomas Roosevelt’s family largely spent their summers at an estate located where?

2. Who won the election for the Mayor of New York in 1886?

3. Maria Longworth Nichols Storer was the founder of what American ceramics company?

4. 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”?

5. While searching for the cattle thieves that he believed stole his boat, Theodore Roosevelt met and befriended what famous sheriff of Deadwood, South Dakota?

(see the answer key)

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