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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, “The Dude from New York”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At what address did the Roosevelt family live when Theodore Roosevelt was born?
(a) 6 West 57th Street.
(b) 12 East 30th Street.
(c) 45 West 12th Street.
(d) 28 East 20th Street.

2. Theodore Roosevelt’s ancestry has been described as half Irish and half what?
(a) Spanish.
(b) Dutch.
(c) English.
(d) French.

3. In what year did Theodore Roosevelt graduate magna cum laude from college?
(a) 1887.
(b) 1880.
(c) 1888.
(d) 1890.

4. In how many of his seven subjects did Theodore Roosevelt earn honors at the completion of his freshman year in college?
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 7.

5. Who did Theodore Roosevelt become friends with during his early career as an assemblyman, who became Roosevelt’s first ally?
(a) Isaac Hunt.
(b) Charles Patterson.
(c) Seth Bullock.
(d) George Edmunds.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Theodore Roosevelt first arrived in Albany as an assemblyman, he was compared by his fellow assemblyman to what contemporary writer of the time?

2. 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”?

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

4. What is the highest mountain in Maine that Theodore Roosevelt set out to climb in his junior year of college?

5. Theodore Roosevelt, Senior received an appointment as Collector of Customs to the Port of New York by what U.S. President?

(see the answer key)

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