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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What new hobby did Theodore Roosevelt undertake in 1870?
(a) Tennis.
(b) Taxidermy.
(c) Photography.
(d) Golfing.

2. What university did Theodore Roosevelt attend?
(a) Brown University.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) Rutgers University.
(d) Yale University.

3. What did Theodore Roosevelt’s mother die of on the same day that his wife died?
(a) A brain aneurysm.
(b) Typhoid fever.
(c) Bright’s disease.
(d) Lung cancer.

4. When was the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act established?
(a) 1895.
(b) 1883.
(c) 1888.
(d) 1885.

5. What was the name of the horse that Theodore Roosevelt had sent to Cambridge in order to pursue his courtship of Alice Lee?
(a) Golden Rod.
(b) Blackie.
(c) Black Beauty.
(d) Lightfoot.

6. 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) Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice.
(b) Abram Hewitt.
(c) George Edmunds.
(d) Henry Cabot Lodge.

7. On October 28, 1881, Theodore Roosevelt gained a nomination for state senate at what age?
(a) 26.
(b) 25.
(c) 23.
(d) 29.

8. 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) Mugwumps.
(b) Turncoats.
(c) Whigs.
(d) Carpetbaggers.

9. The author describes an incident in Liverpool when Theodore Roosevelt was turned down by a vendor when he went to purchase what substance in Chapter 2, “The Mind, but Not the Body”?
(a) Arsenic.
(b) Morphine.
(c) Cannabis.
(d) Formaldehyde.

10. What friends from Maine did Theodore Roosevelt hire to manage his new ranch Elk Horn in the Dakotas?
(a) Bill Sewall and Wilmot Dow.
(b) Isaac Hunt and Joe Ferris.
(c) Joe Ferris and George Edmunds.
(d) Titus Sheard and James G. Blaine.

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

12. With what family did Theodore Roosevelt stay in Dresden when his family visited Europe, according to the author in Chapter 2, “The Mind, but Not the Body”?
(a) The Butler family.
(b) The Minkwitz family.
(c) The Horowitz family.
(d) The Pinkler family.

13. When Theodore Roosevelt returned to Medora in August of 1885, he found who in jail for murder?
(a) George Edmunds.
(b) Henry Cabot Lodge.
(c) Antoine Amedee Marie.
(d) James G. Blaine.

14. 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”?
(a) Grover Cleveland.
(b) James G. Blaine.
(c) George Edmunds.
(d) Titus Sheard.

15. What is the highest mountain in Maine that Theodore Roosevelt set out to climb in his junior year of college?
(a) Mount Ozark.
(b) Mount Harrison.
(c) Mount McKinley.
(d) Mount Katahdin.

Short Answer Questions

1. In investigating corruption in the case of the Manhattan Elevated Railroad and the City of New York, Theodore Roosevelt’s findings demanded further investigation of what two individuals in 1881-1882?

2. 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?

3. Theodore Roosevelt began his trip to the Dakota Territory at a rough hotel along the banks of what river, according to the author in Chapter 8, “The Dude from New York”?

4. In how many of his seven subjects did Theodore Roosevelt earn honors at the completion of his freshman year in college?

5. Where was Theodore Roosevelt’s mother from?

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