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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. When was Theodore Roosevelt’s daughter Alice Lee Roosevelt born?
2. Where did Roosevelt retreat after bribes were placed to block the impeachment of a Superior Court Judge that Roosevelt investigated, according to the author in Chapter 6, “The Cyclone Assemblyman”?
3. Where did Theodore Roosevelt live while he studied in college?
4. What friends from Maine did Theodore Roosevelt hire to manage his new ranch Elk Horn in the Dakotas?
5. When was the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act established?
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 does the author describe Theodore Roosevelt’s studies in his second year at Harvard? What job did his father take at this time?
3. When and where was Theodore Roosevelt born? How is his infancy described in Chapter 1, “The Very Small Person”?
4. What change did Roosevelt make to his studies in his junior year, and why?
5. Where did Theodore and Alice Lee Roosevelt live after their wedding? Where did Roosevelt continue his studies?
6. How was the wedding of Theodore Roosevelt and Alice Lee described in Chapter 5, “The Political Hack”? Where did they stay after the wedding?
7. How was Theodore Roosevelt’s involvement in politics in the Dakotas described in Chapter 13, “The Long Arm of the Law”?
8. How is Theodore Roosevelt’s term as assemblyman described in 1883 in Chapter 7, “The Fighting Cock”?
9. Who did Theodore Roosevelt support in the 1884 Presidential election? Who won the nomination?
10. Where did Theodore Roosevelt travel to marry Edith Carow? Whom did he meet on this trip, according to the author in Chapter 14, “The Next Mayor of New York”?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss Theodore Roosevelt’s relationships with his mother, father, and siblings during his childhood. How did Theodore Senior and Martha Bulloch Roosevelt differ in their personalities and relationships with their children? What were the greatest influences on young Theodore at this time?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the birth of Alice Lee Roosevelt and the deaths of Alice and Mittie following the birth. How did the deaths of his wife and mother on the same day affect Theodore Roosevelt? Why do you think he never wrote much about Alice in his biographies and later life?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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