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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. When Theodore Roosevelt first arrived in Albany as an assemblyman, he was compared by his fellow assemblyman to what contemporary writer of the time?
(a) Mark Twain.
(b) Edgar Allan Poe.
(c) Rudyard Kipling.
(d) Oscar Wilde.

2. While searching for the cattle thieves that he believed stole his boat, Theodore Roosevelt met and befriended what famous sheriff of Deadwood, South Dakota?
(a) Seth Bullock.
(b) Joe Ferris.
(c) Thomas Hart Benton.
(d) James G. Blaine.

3. In his role as New York City Police Commissioner, Theodore Roosevelt enlisted the aid of reporters from what publication?
(a) The New York Times.
(b) The New York Globe.
(c) The New York Post.
(d) The Washington Post.

4. In what year did Theodore Roosevelt graduate magna cum laude from college?
(a) 1888.
(b) 1887.
(c) 1890.
(d) 1880.

5. Who won the Presidential election in 1892?
(a) Henry Cabot Lodge.
(b) Isaac Hunt.
(c) Grover Cleveland.
(d) James G. Blaine.

Short Answer 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”?

2. How long after the death of his wife and mother did Theodore Roosevelt return to Albany?

3. On what date was Theodore Roosevelt III born?

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. While at the 1884 Republican Convention, Theodore Roosevelt learned that who planned to veto several of his bills, according to the author in Chapter 10, “The Delegate-at-Large”?

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