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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. What name did Theodore Roosevelt plan to give to the estate that he built on Long Island for Alice Lee?
2. Theodore Roosevelt’s first trip to the Dakota Territory began at what rough establishment described as a room full of cots in Chapter 8, “The Dude from New York”?
3. What was the name of Theodore Roosevelt’s wife when he held the office of United States President?
4. When Theodore Roosevelt returned to Medora in August of 1885, he found who in jail for murder?
5. When Theodore Roosevelt first took his friends from Maine to his Elk Horn ranch in the Dakotas, he enjoyed much success as a hunter, even killing what?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the author describe Theodore Roosevelt’s courtship with Alice Lee in Chapter 4, “The Swell in the Dog-Cart”?
2. How did Theodore Roosevelt learn of the deaths of his mother and wife, according to the author in Chapter 9, “The Honorable Gentleman”?
3. Whom did Theodore Roosevelt encounter in jail when he returned to the Dakotas in Chapter 12, “The Four-Eyed Maverick”? Why?
4. What position did Theodore Roosevelt serve as assemblyman after the position of Speaker was finally decided in Chapter 6, “The Cyclone Assemblyman”?
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 legislation was Roosevelt involved in during the 1883 session of the New York State Assembly?
7. How does the author describe the impressions that Theodore Roosevelt made on those around him in the Prologue of the biography?
8. Where did Theodore and Alice Lee Roosevelt live after their wedding? Where did Roosevelt continue his studies?
9. 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?
10. How is Theodore Roosevelt’s term as assemblyman described in 1883 in Chapter 7, “The Fighting Cock”?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
Describe the economic, cultural, technological, and societal world of 1858. What was the national and international political atmosphere like at this time? What technological advances had influenced society? Who was U.S. President?
Essay Topic 3
Describe and discuss the settings that Theodore Roosevelt visited with his family in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East during his childhood. What were Roosevelt’s impressions of these settings? How did these nations and locales differ culturally, politically, and socially during the 1860s and 1870s from today?
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