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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In how many of his seven subjects did Theodore Roosevelt earn honors at the completion of his freshman year in college?
(a) 7.
(b) 5.
(c) 4.
(d) 6.

4. Where did Theodore Roosevelt live while he studied in college?
(a) Mrs. Peters’ Boarding House.
(b) Mrs. Richardson's Boarding House.
(c) Mrs. Anderson’s Boarding House.
(d) Mrs. Rothwild’s Boarding House.

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

6. What was the name of the second nature book that Theodore Roosevelt published while he was still enrolled in college?
(a) The Summer Birds of the Adirondacks.
(b) Some of the Birds of Oyster Bay.
(c) Hunting Tips of a Ranchman.
(d) A Biography of Gouveneur Morris.

7. When Theodore Roosevelt first visited the Dakota Territory, what location was used as his base of operations, according to the author in Chapter 8, “The Dude from New York”?
(a) The Pyramid Park Hotel.
(b) Isaac Hunt’s home.
(c) The Clemson Tavern.
(d) Lang’s cabin.

8. 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.

9. What local tycoon and Frenchmen challenged Theodore Roosevelt’s newest land claim in the Dakotas, according to the author in Chapter 11, “The Cowboy of the Present”?
(a) Antoine Amedee Marie.
(b) Henry Cabot Lodge.
(c) Titus Sheard.
(d) James G. Blaine.

10. Who was the Presidential nominee that was chosen at the 1884 Republican Convention?
(a) James G. Blaine.
(b) George Edmunds.
(c) Titus Sheard.
(d) Grover Cleveland.

11. Who did Theodore Roosevelt become friends with during his early career as an assemblyman, who became Roosevelt’s first ally?
(a) Isaac Hunt.
(b) Charles Patterson.
(c) Seth Bullock.
(d) George Edmunds.

12. A severe U.S. winter in 1886-1887 wiped out most of Theodore Roosevelt’s herd of cattle and his investments of how much at Elk Horn ranch?
(a) $80,000.
(b) $100,000.
(c) $60,000.
(d) $50,000.

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

14. Theodore Roosevelt’s first trip to the Dakota Territory began at what rough establishment described as a room full of cots in Chapter 8, “The Dude from New York”?
(a) The Myriam Hotel.
(b) The White Horse Tavern.
(c) The Pyramid Park Hotel.
(d) The Jackson Cliff Tavern.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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”?

2. Who wrote “The Saga of King Olaf”?

3. Where did Theodore Roosevelt and Alice Lee Roosevelt settle in New York after their brief stay at the Roosevelts’ estate on Long Island after their marriage?

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. How old was future first lady Eleanor Roosevelt at the time of Ulysses Grant’s funeral?

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