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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. When Theodore Roosevelt took up sporting with hounds in 1885, he injured himself where on his first trip out?
(a) His shoulder.
(b) His neck.
(c) His hip.
(d) His knee.

2. Who became the primary caretaker of Theodore Roosevelt’s daughter Alice following the death of his first wife?
(a) Bamie Roosevelt.
(b) Sarah Roosevelt.
(c) Mittie Roosevelt.
(d) Henry Cabot Lodge.

3. Who did Theodore Roosevelt hire as a local guide on his first trip to the Dakota Territory?
(a) Charles Patterson.
(b) John Long.
(c) Isaac Hunt.
(d) Joe Ferris.

4. What was the first work that Theodore Roosevelt published following his first year at college?
(a) Some of the Birds of Oyster Bay.
(b) Hunting Tips of a Ranchman.
(c) The Summer Birds of the Adirondacks.
(d) A Biography of Gouveneur Morris.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In the winter when Theodore Roosevelt was wooing Alice Lee, he took a vacation to what location in Maine, according to the author in Chapter 4, “The Swell in the Dog-Cart”?

3. In what year did Theodore Roosevelt graduate magna cum laude from college?

4. Theodore Roosevelt’s ancestry has been described as half Irish and half what?

5. Who did Theodore Roosevelt become friends with during his early career as an assemblyman, who became Roosevelt’s first ally?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

4. Who did Theodore Roosevelt make campaign speeches for when he returned East from the Dakotas in Chapter 11, “The Cowboy of the Present”?

5. What legislation was Roosevelt involved in during the 1883 session of the New York State Assembly?

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

7. 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?

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

9. 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?

10. Who took custody of Theodore Roosevelt’s infant daughter after the death of his wife Alice Lee Roosevelt? Where did his daughter live?

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