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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 28, “The Man of Destiny”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What name refers to Republican political activists that bolted from the U.S. Republican Party by supporting Democratic candidate Grover Cleveland in the Presidential Election of 1884?
(a) Turncoats.
(b) Mugwumps.
(c) Carpetbaggers.
(d) Whigs.

2. When Theodore Roosevelt returned to New York from the Dakotas in 1885-1886, a publisher contracted him to write a biography of whom?
(a) James G. Blaine.
(b) Seth Bullock.
(c) Thomas Hart Benton.
(d) Joe Ferris.

3. Who did Theodore Roosevelt meet at a party that suggested Roosevelt accompany him to Dakota, according to the author in Chapter 7, “The Fighting Cock”?
(a) Commander Charles Patterson.
(b) Commander James Smith.
(c) Commander H. H. Gorringe.
(d) Commander Isaac Hunt.

4. Following the death of his wife and mother, Theodore Roosevelt sold his house and his mother’s and moved his daughter and her caretaker to a smaller place located where in New York City?
(a) 123rd Street.
(b) Brooklyn.
(c) Park Avenue.
(d) Madison Avenue.

5. What author befriended Theodore Roosevelt and later wrote of him that he seemed to have the energy to keep the universe spinning, according to the author in Chapter 18, “The Universe Spinner”?
(a) Edgar Allan Poe.
(b) Mark Twain.
(c) James Whitney.
(d) Rudyard Kipling.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. As acting Secretary of the U.S. Navy, Roosevelt toured what new ship where he heard the cannons fire for the first time, according to the author in Chapter 22, “The Hot Weather Secretary”?

3. What author is mentioned in the Prologue as having remarked negatively about President Theodore Roosevelt’s methodologies and called him “insane”?

4. On what date was Theodore Roosevelt nominated as the Republican candidate for New York Governor?

5. By what nickname was Theodore Roosevelt’s sister, Anna Roosevelt, known?

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