1. The Prologue of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt opens with a detailed description of President Roosevelt greeting guests on New Year’s Day of what year?
(a) 1892.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1914.
(d) 1907.

2. Theodore Roosevelt began courting Edith Carow how long after the death of his first wife, according to the author in Chapter 12, “The Four-Eyed Maverick”?
(a) 6 months later.
(b) 20 months later.
(c) 2 months later.
(d) 4 years later.

3. What name refers to Republican political activists that bolted from the U.S. Republican Party by supporting Democratic candidate Grover Cleveland in the Presidential Election of 1884?
(a) Mugwumps.
(b) Whigs.
(c) Carpetbaggers.
(d) Turncoats.

4. Who won the Presidential election in 1884?
(a) Grover Cleveland.
(b) Titus Sheard.
(c) George Edmunds.
(d) Henry Cabot Lodge.

5. What did Theodore Roosevelt change the name of his estate at Oyster Bay to after the death of his wife Alice?
(a) Leeholm.
(b) Magenta Lee.
(c) Elk Horn.
(d) Sagamore Hill.

Short Answer Questions

1. Theodore Roosevelt’s first trip to the Dakota Territory began at what rough establishment described as a room full of cots in Chapter 8, “The Dude from New York”?

2. When Theodore Roosevelt took up sporting with hounds in 1885, he injured himself where on his first trip out?

3. At what address did the Roosevelt family live when Theodore Roosevelt was born?

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

5. In what year did Theodore Roosevelt graduate magna cum laude from college?

(see the answer key)

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