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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did Theodore Roosevelt graduate magna cum laude from college?
(a) 1890.
(b) 1888.
(c) 1880.
(d) 1887.

2. When Theodore Roosevelt returned Albany to the Republican Convention of 1884, he led the independents for what candidate?
(a) James G. Blaine.
(b) Titus Sheard.
(c) George Edmunds.
(d) Grover Cleveland.

3. While searching for the cattle thieves that he believed stole his boat, Theodore Roosevelt met and befriended what famous sheriff of Deadwood, South Dakota?
(a) James G. Blaine.
(b) Joe Ferris.
(c) Thomas Hart Benton.
(d) Seth Bullock.

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) Madison Avenue.
(b) 123rd Street.
(c) Park Avenue.
(d) Brooklyn.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Theodore Roosevelt live while he studied in college?

2. Who wrote “The Saga of King Olaf”?

3. Theodore Roosevelt, Senior received an appointment as Collector of Customs to the Port of New York by what U.S. President?

4. 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?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was Theodore Roosevelt’s involvement in politics in the Dakotas described in Chapter 13, “The Long Arm of the Law”?

2. How does the author describe Theodore Roosevelt’s impressions of Albany after arriving as an assemblyman in Chapter 6, “The Cyclone Assemblyman”?

3. What scenario does the author present surrounding Theodore Roosevelt in the Prologue of the biography? What setting is described?

4. What is revealed in the journal writings of Theodore Roosevelt in 1870, as seen in Chapter 2, “The Mind, but Not the Body”? What were his interests?

5. Where did Theodore and Alice Lee Roosevelt live after their wedding? Where did Roosevelt continue his studies?

6. How did Theodore Roosevelt’s first trip to the Dakotas begin, according to the author in Chapter 8, “The Dude from New York”? How is this setting described?

7. Where did the Roosevelt family travel in the fall of 1870? How does the author describe Theodore Roosevelt’s impressions of these locales in Chapter 2, “The Mind, but Not the Body”?

8. Whom did Theodore Roosevelt encounter in jail when he returned to the Dakotas in Chapter 12, “The Four-Eyed Maverick”? Why?

9. Where did Theodore Roosevelt travel to marry Edith Carow? Whom did he meet on this trip, according to the author in Chapter 14, “The Next Mayor of New York”?

10. Where did Theodore Roosevelt live during his studies at Harvard? How is this setting described in Chapter 3, “The Man with the Morning in His Face”?

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