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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what date did President McKinley die of gangrene from his bullet wounds?
(a) September 2, 1901.
(b) September 14, 1901.
(c) July 3, 1901.
(d) September 6, 1901.

2. Who did William McKinley run against in the 1900 Presidential election?
(a) Benjamin Harrison.
(b) Seth Bullock.
(c) Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice.
(d) William Jennings Bryan.

3. What manager of McKinley’s and Republican Senator opposed Theodore Roosevelt running as Vice President alongside McKinley in the 1900 election?
(a) Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice.
(b) Gouveneur Morris.
(c) Joe Ferris.
(d) Mark Hanna.

4. Where did Roosevelt and the Rough Riders land in Cuba during the Spanish-American War?
(a) Daiquiri.
(b) Pina del Rio.
(c) Puerto Padre.
(d) Siboney.

5. How old was Theodore Roosevelt’s brother when he died?
(a) 29.
(b) 36.
(c) 34.
(d) 40.

6. What term refers to the practice where a political party, after winning an election, gives government jobs to its voters as a reward for working toward victory?
(a) A ratchet system.
(b) A spoils system.
(c) A commerce system.
(d) A bias system.

7. On what date was Theodore Roosevelt III born?
(a) February 12, 1884.
(b) October 28, 1881.
(c) December 2, 1886.
(d) September 13, 1887.

8. Roosevelt and his men in the Rough Riders departed Tampa for Cuba on what date?
(a) June 13, 1898.
(b) August 14, 1894.
(c) February 15, 1898.
(d) October 27, 1858.

9. On what date did Anna Hall Roosevelt die?
(a) February 12, 1884.
(b) September 13, 1887.
(c) December 2, 1886.
(d) December 7, 1892.

10. On what date did Congress pass joint resolution demanding Spanish withdrawal from Cuban?
(a) February 15, 1898.
(b) April 19, 1898.
(c) August 14, 1894.
(d) April 23, 1898.

11. Who shot President McKinley?
(a) William Strong.
(b) Andrew Parker.
(c) Frank Hatton.
(d) Leon Czolgosz.

12. Where did Theodore Roosevelt, as Assistant Secretary to the Navy, deliver an inciting speech speaking against Japan's presence in the Pacific?
(a) Cleveland, Ohio.
(b) Richmond, Virginia.
(c) Sandusky, Ohio.
(d) Southport, Florida.

13. When the Rough Riders arrived in Tampa, Florida, to prepare for departure in the Spanish-American War, who commanded the army bound for Cuba?
(a) Frank Hatton.
(b) Thomas Hart Benton.
(c) William Rufus Shafter.
(d) Joe Ferris.

14. On what date did the Rough Riders and other American troops return to New York from the Spanish-American War?
(a) August 14, 1894.
(b) July 1, 1898.
(c) February 15, 1898.
(d) August 8, 1898.

15. What Washington Post writer called Roosevelt a hypocrite for finding work for Shidy after the ordeal in Wisconsin, according to the author in Chapter 16, “The Silver-Plated Reform Commissioner”?
(a) Frank Hatton.
(b) Seth Bullock.
(c) George Edmunds.
(d) George Paul.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the trial described in Chapter 20, “The Snake in the Grass,” Theodore Roosevelt publicly came out in support of who for the Presidential election?

2. Whom did Theodore Roosevelt write a biography of during his service as New York Governor, inserting himself into much of the history according to the author in Chapter 27, “The Boy Governor”?

3. Theodore Roosevelt was appointed to the post of Assistant Secretary of the Navy in what year?

4. Theodore Roosevelt was returning from a climb to the summit of what mountain when a park ranger brought him a telegram informing him of the President’s deteriorating condition, according to the author in the Epilogue?

5. Maria Longworth Nichols Storer was the founder of what American ceramics company?

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