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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. 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”?

2. In Chapter 9, “The Honorable Gentleman,” the author states that Theodore Roosevelt succeeded in pushing three pieces of legislations through, including a reform of what?

3. What was the name of Alice Lee’s father?

4. Thomas Roosevelt’s family largely spent their summers at an estate located where?

5. Following the death of his wife and mother, Theodore Roosevelt sold his house and his mother’s and moved his daughter and her caretaker to a smaller place located where in New York City?

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 were Theodore Roosevelt’s principle objectives as assemblyman during his third term, according to the author in Chapter 9, “The Honorable Gentleman”?

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

4. 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”?

5. When and where was Theodore Roosevelt born? How is his infancy described in Chapter 1, “The Very Small Person”?

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

7. How does the author describe Theodore Roosevelt’s parents in Chapter 1, “The Very Small Person”?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Roosevelt’s political causes, successes, and failures upon his return to Albany following the deaths of Alice Lee and Mittie Roosevelt. Whom did Theodore Roosevelt support for the Republican candidate for President of the United States? What policies did this candidate support? Why did Roosevelt support him?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and discuss Theodore Roosevelt’s courtship with Edith Carow. How did Roosevelt first know Carow? What was their relationship like during Roosevelt’s first marriage to Alice? When did Roosevelt first begin courting Edith after his first wife’s death?

Essay Topic 3

Characteristics of Theodore Roosevelt

a. Describe Theodore Roosevelt’s physical impression on those around him as an individual and as a political figure. How was Roosevelt depicted in the political cartoons of his day?

b. Discuss Theodore Roosevelt’s personality and emotional traits. How did he come across on first impressions to those around him? How did these characteristics lead him to success as a politician?

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