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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who did Theodore Roosevelt hire as a local guide on his first trip to the Dakota Territory?
2. Where did Theodore Roosevelt enroll to study law after his first marriage?
3. Who won the Presidential election in 1884?
4. What is the highest mountain in Maine that Theodore Roosevelt set out to climb in his junior year of college?
5. In the Dakota Territory, Roosevelt enjoyed celebrity status for his capture of the cattle thieves who stole his boat. He was then asked to give a speech at a political celebration in what town on July 4, according to the author in Chapter 13, “The Long Arm of the Law”?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. Who took custody of Theodore Roosevelt’s infant daughter after the death of his wife Alice Lee Roosevelt? Where did his daughter live?
3. Who did Theodore Roosevelt support in the 1884 Presidential election? Who won the nomination?
4. How was the wedding of Theodore Roosevelt and Alice Lee described in Chapter 5, “The Political Hack”? Where did they stay after the wedding?
5. What were Theodore Roosevelt’s principle objectives as assemblyman during his third term, according to the author in Chapter 9, “The Honorable Gentleman”?
6. What led Theodore Roosevelt to return to New York from the Dakotas in Chapter 12, “The Four-Eyed Maverick”?
7. When and where was Theodore Roosevelt born? How is his infancy described in Chapter 1, “The Very Small Person”?
8. Who did Theodore Roosevelt make campaign speeches for when he returned East from the Dakotas in Chapter 11, “The Cowboy of the Present”?
9. Whom did Theodore Roosevelt encounter in jail when he returned to the Dakotas in Chapter 12, “The Four-Eyed Maverick”? Why?
10. 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”?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe the candidates, platforms, and debates of the 1886 New York City Mayoral election. Whom did Theodore Roosevelt run against? What were his competitors like? What ultimately appeared to be Roosevelt’s downfall in the election?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss Theodore Roosevelt’s role in the early politics of the Dakota Territory. In what ways did Roosevelt assist in developing the first elections and stockman’s associations? How important was Roosevelt’s role in the political development of this region?
Essay Topic 3
Describe and discuss Theodore Roosevelt’s courtship of Alice Lee. How did Roosevelt come to know the Lee family? What were his impressions of Alice when they first met? How did Roosevelt go about wooing Alice?
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