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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16, “The Silver-Plated Reform Commissioner”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Theodore Roosevelt’s mother die of on the same day that his wife died?
(a) Typhoid fever.
(b) Bright’s disease.
(c) A brain aneurysm.
(d) Lung cancer.

2. What term refers to the practice where a political party, after winning an election, gives government jobs to its voters as a reward for working toward victory?
(a) A commerce system.
(b) A spoils system.
(c) A bias system.
(d) A ratchet system.

3. What term refers to the widely held belief that American settlers were destined to expand across the continent?
(a) Manifest Destiny.
(b) Personal Utopia.
(c) Indian Removal.
(d) Individual Right.

4. In investigating corruption in the case of the Manhattan Elevated Railroad and the City of New York, Theodore Roosevelt’s findings demanded further investigation of what two individuals in 1881-1882?
(a) Charles Patterson and Judge Anderson.
(b) Judge Westbrook and Attorney General Ward.
(c) Judge Jasper and Attorney General Swift.
(d) Judge Williamson and Attorney General Smith.

5. While searching for the cattle thieves that he believed stole his boat, Theodore Roosevelt met and befriended what famous sheriff of Deadwood, South Dakota?
(a) Joe Ferris.
(b) Seth Bullock.
(c) Thomas Hart Benton.
(d) James G. Blaine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was elected as Speaker in the New York Assembly in 1881 and 1882?

2. What was the name of the second nature book that Theodore Roosevelt published while he was still enrolled in college?

3. When was Theodore Roosevelt’s daughter Alice Lee Roosevelt born?

4. Who did Theodore Roosevelt campaign for in the 1888 Presidential election?

5. A severe U.S. winter in 1886-1887 wiped out most of Theodore Roosevelt’s herd of cattle and his investments of how much at Elk Horn ranch?

(see the answer key)

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