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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. Where did Theodore Roosevelt live while he studied in college?
(a) Mrs. Richardson's Boarding House.
(b) Mrs. Rothwild’s Boarding House.
(c) Mrs. Anderson’s Boarding House.
(d) Mrs. Peters’ Boarding House.

2. What book did Theodore Roosevelt publish in 1885 about his experiences in the Dakotas?
(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.

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

4. Where did Theodore Roosevelt enroll to study law after his first marriage?
(a) Harvard School of Law.
(b) Princeton School of Law.
(c) Columbia School of Law.
(d) Yale School of Law.

5. Theodore Roosevelt’s ancestry has been described as half Irish and half what?
(a) Spanish.
(b) English.
(c) Dutch.
(d) French.

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. 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?

3. In 1886, Roosevelt ran as the Republican candidate for mayor of New York City, portraying himself as what persona?

4. Who wrote “The Saga of King Olaf”?

5. Where did Theodore Roosevelt and Alice Lee Roosevelt settle in New York after their brief stay at the Roosevelts’ estate on Long Island after their marriage?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Theodore Roosevelt learn of the deaths of his mother and wife, according to the author in Chapter 9, “The Honorable Gentleman”?

2. 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?

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

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

5. How does the author describe Theodore Roosevelt’s studies in his second year at Harvard? What job did his father take at this time?

6. Whom did Theodore Roosevelt hire as a local guide in the Dakota Territory on his first trip there, according to the author in Chapter 8, “The Dude from New York”? Where did he stay?

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

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

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

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