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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. Where did Theodore and Alice Roosevelt retreat for the month of July as construction continued on Roosevelt’s mansion at Oyster Bay, according to the author in Chapter 7, “The Fighting Cock”?
(a) The Pyramid Park Hotel.
(b) Richfield Springs, New York.
(c) Coney Island, New York.
(d) Brighton Beach, New York.

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

3. What was the name of Alice Lee’s father?
(a) James Williams Lee.
(b) George Michael Lee.
(c) George Cabot Lee.
(d) Abraham Lee.

4. When was Theodore Roosevelt’s daughter Alice Lee Roosevelt born?
(a) February 12, 1884.
(b) January 14, 1883.
(c) October 27, 1858.
(d) October 28, 1881.

5. When Theodore Roosevelt took up sporting with hounds in 1885, he injured himself where on his first trip out?
(a) His hip.
(b) His neck.
(c) His knee.
(d) His shoulder.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Theodore Roosevelt campaign for in the 1888 Presidential election?

2. Who did Theodore Roosevelt hire as a local guide on his first trip to the Dakota Territory?

3. What is the highest mountain in Maine that Theodore Roosevelt set out to climb in his junior year of college?

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

5. At the trial described in Chapter 20, “The Snake in the Grass,” Theodore Roosevelt publicly came out in support of who for the Presidential election?

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