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

2. How long after the death of his wife and mother did Theodore Roosevelt return to Albany?
(a) Three months later.
(b) Less than a week later.
(c) Two months later.
(d) One year later.

3. What trademark greeting is Theodore Roosevelt described as having used when shaking the hands of his visitors at the White House in the book’s Prologue?
(a) “Delighted!”
(b) “Hello!”’
(c) “Good to meet you!”
(d) “Ciao!”

4. When was Henry George born?
(a) 1839.
(b) 1815.
(c) 1829.
(d) 1891.

5. In 1886, Roosevelt ran as the Republican candidate for mayor of New York City, portraying himself as what persona?
(a) “The Rancher Professor.”
(b) “The Future President.”
(c) “The Cowboy of the Dakotas.”
(d) “The Cowboy of the Ivy League.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Before departing the Dakota Territory from his first visit, Theodore Roosevelt purchased what property to use as a cattle ranch?

2. Who won the election for the Mayor of New York in 1886?

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?

4. 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?

5. What did Theodore Roosevelt change the name of his estate at Oyster Bay to after the death of his wife Alice?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was the wedding of Theodore Roosevelt and Alice Lee described in Chapter 5, “The Political Hack”? Where did they stay after the wedding?

2. 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”?

3. 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”?

4. How does the author describe Theodore Roosevelt’s parents in Chapter 1, “The Very Small Person”?

5. 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?

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. Who did Theodore Roosevelt support in the 1884 Presidential election? Who won the nomination?

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

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

10. What led Theodore Roosevelt to campaign in the New York Mayoral elections, according to the author in Chapter 14, “The Next Mayor of New York”?

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