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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 local tycoon and Frenchmen challenged Theodore Roosevelt’s newest land claim in the Dakotas, according to the author in Chapter 11, “The Cowboy of the Present”?

2. What refers to a levy on the unimproved value of land only?

3. What university did Theodore Roosevelt attend?

4. Theodore Roosevelt began his trip to the Dakota Territory at a rough hotel along the banks of what river, according to the author in Chapter 8, “The Dude from New York”?

5. On what date was Theodore Roosevelt born?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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”?

3. Who took custody of Theodore Roosevelt’s infant daughter after the death of his wife Alice Lee Roosevelt? Where did his daughter live?

4. 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?

5. 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?

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

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

8. Who did Theodore Roosevelt support in the 1884 Presidential election? Who won the nomination?

9. 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?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

Discuss Roosevelt’s studies at the newly founded Columbia School of Law, his attendance at meetings of the Twenty-first District Republican Association, Joe Murray, and Roosevelt’s entrance into the political world. Why did Joe Murray work to convince Roosevelt to enter the political world?

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