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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19, “The Biggest Man in New York”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Theodore Roosevelt built a ranch in the Dakota Territory named Elk Horn. This ranch was located 35 miles from what boomtown?
(a) Fargo, North Dakota.
(b) Medora, North Dakota.
(c) Minot, North Dakota.
(d) Bismarck, North Dakota.

2. What name did Theodore Roosevelt plan to give to the estate that he built on Long Island for Alice Lee?
(a) White Cliff.
(b) Leeholm.
(c) Great Land.
(d) Stratford.

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

4. What was the name of the horse that Theodore Roosevelt had sent to Cambridge in order to pursue his courtship of Alice Lee?
(a) Lightfoot.
(b) Black Beauty.
(c) Blackie.
(d) Golden Rod.

5. When Theodore Roosevelt returned to Medora in August of 1885, he found who in jail for murder?
(a) Henry Cabot Lodge.
(b) Antoine Amedee Marie.
(c) James G. Blaine.
(d) George Edmunds.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Theodore Roosevelt returned Albany to the Republican Convention of 1884, he led the independents for what candidate?

2. Where did Theodore Roosevelt and Alice Lee Roosevelt settle in New York after their brief stay at the Roosevelts’ estate on Long Island after their marriage?

3. From whose brother did Theodore Roosevelt purchase the lands in the Dakota Territory that he planned to use as a cattle ranch?

4. The author describes an incident in Liverpool when Theodore Roosevelt was turned down by a vendor when he went to purchase what substance in Chapter 2, “The Mind, but Not the Body”?

5. For how many years did Theodore Roosevelt hold the position of New York City Police Commissioner?

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