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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Theodore Roosevelt’s ancestry has been described as half Irish and half what?
(a) Spanish.
(b) French.
(c) Dutch.
(d) English.

2. What name did Theodore Roosevelt plan to give to the estate that he built on Long Island for Alice Lee?
(a) Great Land.
(b) White Cliff.
(c) Stratford.
(d) Leeholm.

3. What future Secretary of State did Theodore Roosevelt meet in September of 1870, according to the author in Chapter 2, “The Mind, but Not the Body”?
(a) Joe Ferris.
(b) John Hay.
(c) Titus Sheard.
(d) Isaac Hunt.

4. What trademark greeting is Theodore Roosevelt described as having used when shaking the hands of his visitors at the White House in the book’s Prologue?
(a) “Hello!”’
(b) “Delighted!”
(c) “Ciao!”
(d) “Good to meet you!”

5. What was the name of Theodore Roosevelt’s mother?
(a) Sarah Eleanor Roosevelt.
(b) Mary Elizabeth Roosevelt.
(c) Maria Bertrand Roosevelt.
(d) Martha Bulloch Roosevelt.

6. At what address did the Roosevelt family live when Theodore Roosevelt was born?
(a) 12 East 30th Street.
(b) 45 West 12th Street.
(c) 28 East 20th Street.
(d) 6 West 57th Street.

7. Theodore Roosevelt began courting Edith Carow how long after the death of his first wife, according to the author in Chapter 12, “The Four-Eyed Maverick”?
(a) 4 years later.
(b) 6 months later.
(c) 2 months later.
(d) 20 months later.

8. What refers to a levy on the unimproved value of land only?
(a) Land immunity tax.
(b) Personal value tax.
(c) Land levy accordance.
(d) Land value tax.

9. What term refers to the widely held belief that American settlers were destined to expand across the continent?
(a) Individual Right.
(b) Manifest Destiny.
(c) Personal Utopia.
(d) Indian Removal.

10. When Theodore Roosevelt lost the election for New York City Mayor, he rejoiced that at least what friend of his had won a seat in Congress?
(a) Abram Hewitt.
(b) George Edmunds.
(c) Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice.
(d) Henry Cabot Lodge.

11. Who did Theodore Roosevelt visit in Boston after buying Elk Horn ranch in the Dakotas, according to the author in Chapter 11, “The Cowboy of the Present”?
(a) George Edmunds.
(b) Titus Sheard.
(c) Henry Cabot Lodge.
(d) James G. Blaine.

12. Who did Theodore Roosevelt meet aboard a ship bound for England in the winter of 1886, who later introduced Roosevelt to many English dignitaries?
(a) George Edmunds.
(b) Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice.
(c) Henry Cabot Lodge.
(d) Abram Hewitt.

13. In Chapter 9, “The Honorable Gentleman,” the author states that Theodore Roosevelt succeeded in pushing three pieces of legislations through, including a reform of what?
(a) New York City’s policemen.
(b) New York City’s ports.
(c) New York City's aldermen.
(d) New York City’s transportation system.

14. 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) Rudyard Kipling.
(b) Mark Twain.
(c) Edgar Allan Poe.
(d) Oscar Wilde.

15. Where did Theodore Roosevelt enroll to study law after his first marriage?
(a) Harvard School of Law.
(b) Princeton School of Law.
(c) Yale School of Law.
(d) Columbia School of Law.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act established?

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?

3. When was Henry George born?

4. 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”?

5. At what time does the author describe Theodore Roosevelt as having concluded his hours of handshaking on New Year’s Day in the book’s Prologue?

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