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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 28, “The Man of Destiny”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Theodore Roosevelt returned Albany to the Republican Convention of 1884, he led the independents for what candidate?
(a) George Edmunds.
(b) James G. Blaine.
(c) Grover Cleveland.
(d) Titus Sheard.

2. What university did Theodore Roosevelt attend?
(a) Yale University.
(b) Brown University.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) Rutgers University.

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

4. Who won the Presidential election in 1892?
(a) James G. Blaine.
(b) Isaac Hunt.
(c) Henry Cabot Lodge.
(d) Grover Cleveland.

5. As acting Secretary of the U.S. Navy, Roosevelt toured what new ship where he heard the cannons fire for the first time, according to the author in Chapter 22, “The Hot Weather Secretary”?
(a) The USS Iowa.
(b) The USS Pennsylvania.
(c) The USS Ohio.
(d) The USS Maine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Theodore Roosevelt was appointed to the post of Assistant Secretary of the Navy in what year?

2. What term refers to the widely held belief that American settlers were destined to expand across the continent?

3. What did Theodore Roosevelt’s mother die of on the same day that his wife died?

4. Where did Theodore Roosevelt, as Assistant Secretary to the Navy, deliver an inciting speech speaking against Japan's presence in the Pacific?

5. Who did Theodore Roosevelt meet at a party that suggested Roosevelt accompany him to Dakota, according to the author in Chapter 7, “The Fighting Cock”?

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