Read the text and mark the statements True, False and Not stated. A Person of Many Talents Theodore Roosevelt is a very famous and interesting person in history. He was an American author, naturalist, explorer, historian, and politician who served as the 26th President of the United States. He was a leader of the Republican Party (the “GOP”) and founder of the Progressive Party. Roosevelt had an older sister named Anna (“Bamie”), a younger brother named Elliott, and a younger sister named Corinne, Elliott was the father of First Lady Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Roosevelt’s youth was in large part shaped by his poor health and his need to overcome severe asthma, with its debilitating impact on the body and the personality. He experienced recurring sudden nighttime asthma attacks that caused near deathlike experiences of being smothered, terrifying the boy and his parents. Doctors had no cure. Nevertheless, he was energetic and mischievously inquisitive. He became interested in zoology at the age of seven when he saw a dead seal at a local market - after buying the seal's head, Roosevelt and two cousins formed what they called the “Roosevelt Museum of Natural History”. Having learned the rudiments of taxidermy, he filled his makeshift museum with animals that he killed or caught, then studied and prepared for display. At age nine, he continued his observation of insects with a paper entitled “The Natural History of Insects”. He did well in science, philosophy, and rhetoric courses but continued to struggle in Latin and Greek. He studied biology intently and was already an accomplished naturalist and published ornithologist; he read prodigiously, with an almost photographic memory. While at Harvard, Roosevelt was active in rowing and boxing; he was runner-up in a Harvard boxing tournament. Roosevelt was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi literary society, the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, and the Porcellian Club; he also was an editor of The Harvard Advocate. Roosevelt graduated from Phi Beta Kappa (22nd of 177) from Harvard with an A.B. magna cum laude on June 30, 1880. He underwent a physical examination after graduation - his doctor diagnosed him with heart problems and recommended he avoid strenuous activity, advice which he spurned. He entered Columbia Law School, and was an able student, but found the law often a frustration of irrationality; he spent much of his time writing a book on the War of 1812. Roosevelt became entirely disenchanted with the monotonous study of law and soon found a diversion to satisfy his gregarious nature - it came in the form of political discussions - which he encountered at Morton Hall on 59th Street, the headquarters for New York’s 21st District Republican Association. When pushed to run for public office, he dropped out of law school to pursue his new goal, saying later, “I intended to be one of the governing class.” True False Not stated Roosevelt had a lot of cousins. A lot of people visited the museum founded by Roosevelt and his cousins. Roosevelt was successful in Latin and Greek. Theodore Roosevelt was famous not only as the president of the US. Although Roosevelt suffered from illness, he was a vital child. Roosevelt had two brothers.

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Read the text and mark the statements True, False and Not stated.
A Person of Many Talents
Theodore Roosevelt is a very famous and interesting person in history. He was an American author, naturalist, explorer, historian, and politician who served as the 26th President of the United States. He was a leader of the Republican Party \(the “GOP”\) and founder of the Progressive Party. Roosevelt had an older sister named Anna \(“Bamie”\), a younger brother named Elliott, and a younger sister named Corinne, Elliott was the father of First Lady Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Roosevelt’s youth was in large part shaped by his poor health and his need to overcome severe asthma, with its debilitating impact on the body and the personality. He experienced recurring sudden nighttime asthma attacks that caused near deathlike experiences of being smothered, terrifying the boy and his parents. Doctors had no cure. Nevertheless, he was energetic and mischievously inquisitive. He became interested in zoology at the age of seven when he saw a dead seal at a local market - after buying the seal's head, Roosevelt and two cousins formed what they called the “Roosevelt Museum of Natural History”. Having learned the rudiments of taxidermy, he filled his makeshift museum with animals that he killed or caught, then studied and prepared for display. At age nine, he continued his observation of insects with a paper entitled “The Natural History of Insects”. He did well in science, philosophy, and rhetoric courses but continued to struggle in Latin and Greek. He studied biology intently and was already an accomplished naturalist and published ornithologist; he read prodigiously, with an almost photographic memory. While at Harvard, Roosevelt was active in rowing and boxing; he was runner-up in a Harvard boxing tournament. Roosevelt was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi literary society, the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, and the Porcellian Club; he also was an editor of The Harvard Advocate. Roosevelt graduated from Phi Beta Kappa \(22nd of 177\) from Harvard with an A.B. magna cum laude on June 30, 1880. He underwent a physical examination after graduation - his doctor diagnosed him with heart problems and recommended he avoid strenuous activity, advice which he spurned. He entered Columbia Law School, and was an able student, but found the law often a frustration of irrationality; he spent much of his time writing a book on the War of 1812. Roosevelt became entirely disenchanted with the monotonous study of law and soon found a diversion to satisfy his gregarious nature - it came in the form of political discussions - which he encountered at Morton Hall on 59th Street, the headquarters for New York’s 21st District Republican Association. When pushed to run for public office, he dropped out of law school to pursue his new goal, saying later, “I intended to be one of the governing class.”

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- True
- False
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- Roosevelt had a lot of cousins.
- A lot of people visited the museum founded by Roosevelt and his cousins.
- Roosevelt was successful in Latin and Greek.
- Theodore Roosevelt was famous not only as the president of the US.
- Although Roosevelt suffered from illness, he was a vital child.
- Roosevelt had two brothers.

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