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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. 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”?
(a) 2 months later.
(b) 6 months later.
(c) 4 years later.
(d) 20 months later.

2. What did Theodore Roosevelt’s mother die of on the same day that his wife died?
(a) Typhoid fever.
(b) Bright’s disease.
(c) Lung cancer.
(d) A brain aneurysm.

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

4. From whose brother did Theodore Roosevelt purchase the lands in the Dakota Territory that he planned to use as a cattle ranch?
(a) Charles Patterson’s.
(b) Joe Ferris’s.
(c) James Wilson’s.
(d) Isaac Hunt’s.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At what address did the Roosevelt family live when Theodore Roosevelt was born?

2. Theodore Roosevelt married Alice Lee on his birthday. How old did he turn on that day?

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

4. What was the first work that Theodore Roosevelt published following his first year at college?

5. 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”?

Short Essay Questions

1. What position did Theodore Roosevelt serve as assemblyman after the position of Speaker was finally decided in Chapter 6, “The Cyclone Assemblyman”?

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

3. 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”?

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

5. 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”?

6. 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?

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

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

9. What change did Roosevelt make to his studies in his junior year, and why?

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

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