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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) 1880.
(b) 1888.
(c) 1890.
(d) 1887.

2. 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) Henry Cabot Lodge.
(b) Titus Sheard.
(c) James G. Blaine.
(d) Antoine Amedee Marie.

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) Isaac Hunt.
(b) John Hay.
(c) Joe Ferris.
(d) Titus Sheard.

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

5. 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) 123rd Street.
(b) Madison Avenue.
(c) Brooklyn.
(d) Park Avenue.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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”?

2. Who was elected as Speaker in the New York Assembly in 1881 and 1882?

3. What term refers to the widely held belief that American settlers were destined to expand across the continent?

4. What author is cited in the Prologue as having been a fan of Theodore Roosevelt’s and who called him “delightful”?

5. From whose brother did Theodore Roosevelt purchase the lands in the Dakota Territory that he planned to use as a cattle ranch?

Short Essay Questions

1. What led Theodore Roosevelt to return to New York from the Dakotas in Chapter 12, “The Four-Eyed Maverick”?

2. How does the author describe Theodore Roosevelt’s courtship with Alice Lee in Chapter 4, “The Swell in the Dog-Cart”?

3. What book did Theodore Roosevelt travel west to work on in Chapter 13, “The Long Arm of the Law”?

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

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

6. How is Theodore Roosevelt’s term as assemblyman described in 1883 in Chapter 7, “The Fighting Cock”?

7. Why did Theodore Roosevelt travel to the Dakotas, according to the author in Chapter 11, “The Cowboy of the Present”? What did he do there in this trip?

8. How does the author describe the impressions that Theodore Roosevelt made on those around him in the Prologue of the biography?

9. When and where was Theodore Roosevelt born? How is his infancy described in Chapter 1, “The Very Small Person”?

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

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