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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 24, “The Rough Rider”.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What friends from Maine did Theodore Roosevelt hire to manage his new ranch Elk Horn in the Dakotas?
(a) Isaac Hunt and Joe Ferris.
(b) Joe Ferris and George Edmunds.
(c) Bill Sewall and Wilmot Dow.
(d) Titus Sheard and James G. Blaine.

3. Who won the election for the Mayor of New York in 1886?
(a) Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice.
(b) Henry Cabot Lodge.
(c) George Edmunds.
(d) Abram Hewitt.

4. How many other men also served as New York City Police Commissioners at the same time as Theodore Roosevelt?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 5.

5. When was Maria Longworth Nichols Storer born?
(a) 1820.
(b) 1849.
(c) 1815.
(d) 1851.

Short Answer Questions

1. In his role as New York City Police Commissioner, Theodore Roosevelt enlisted the aid of reporters from what publication?

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. The U.S. Army Colonel who helped Theodore Roosevelt form the Rough Riders formerly held what position?

4. Theodore Roosevelt’s ancestry has been described as half Irish and half what?

5. Who did Theodore Roosevelt become friends with during his early career as an assemblyman, who became Roosevelt’s first ally?

(see the answer key)

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