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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year does the economy enter into a downturn that lasts for six years?
(a) 1837.
(b) 1833.
(c) 1877.
(d) 1873.

2. John D. is able to negotiate good rates on the railroads for what reason?
(a) Many of the railroad owners owe him favors.
(b) Many of the railroad owners are Standard Oil stockholders.
(c) He has many friends in the railroad industry.
(d) He has worked in the railroad industry.

3. They have a son, ________________ Rockefeller who is born in Granger, New York in 1810.
(a) William Avery.
(b) William Austin.
(c) William Aaron.
(d) William Allen.

4. Rockefeller now controls ________ percent of the U.S. oil that is refined.
(a) Eighty.
(b) Sixty.
(c) Seventy.
(d) Ninety.

5. There are _________________ during the post civil War period.
(a) Fortunes to be made.
(b) Debts to settle.
(c) Slaves to set free.
(d) Fortunes to be lost.

6. In the 1850s, whole oil is used to fuel what?
(a) Lighting.
(b) Automobiles.
(c) Heat.
(d) Electricity.

7. Big Bill runs a _______________ business and a hired worker who runs his farm.
(a) Merchandise.
(b) Oil.
(c) Shipping.
(d) Logging.

8. In ________ Johann Peter Rockefeller immigrates to America and settles in New Jersey.
(a) 1742.
(b) 1724.
(c) 1732.
(d) 1723.

9. Over the 1877 to 1883 period, they gradually shift their residence from ____________.
(a) Forest Hill to Euclid Avenue.
(b) From Euclid Avenue to New York City.
(c) Euclid Avenue to Forest Hill.
(d) From Forest Hill to New York City.

10. The country is expanding to the west and new oil companies are forming, and the Standard trust divides the continent into ________ marketing districts.
(a) Ten.
(b) Nine.
(c) Eight.
(d) Eleven.

11. Maurice Clark and his brothers are in business with John D. in the refinery and John D. does not like this for what reason?
(a) They do not listen to his ideas.
(b) He does not get along with them.
(c) They have the votes to override him.
(d) He does not like the business.

12. By May ________, Rockefeller controls all the major refineries in the nation and few people outside of the oil industry have ever heard of him.
(a) 1877.
(b) 1857.
(c) 1855.
(d) 1875.

13. John D. now has control of the largest oil refinery in Cleveland at the age of ______________ along with his new partner, Am Andrews.
(a) Twenty-one.
(b) Thirty-five.
(c) Twenty-five.
(d) Thirty.

14. The new oil at Bradford intensifies the battle between who?
(a) Standard Oil and Sun Oil.
(b) Standard Oil and the iron industry.
(c) Standard Oil and the railroad.
(d) Standard Oil and the oil producers.

15. Rockefeller now sets a goal of absorbing what refiners into Standard Oil and he easily succeeds in absorbing the two largest refiners?
(a) The Columbus and Cleveland.
(b) The Philadelphia and New York.
(c) The Pittsburgh and Philadelphia.
(d) The Cleveland and Pittsburgh.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the end of the SIC, Rockefeller comes up with a new plan, called what?

2. By 1870, there is so much overproduction and falling prices that John D. begins to worry about what?

3. John D. is very concerned with displaying what?

4. Rockefeller's Cleveland refineries are further from what area than the Oil Regions refineries are?

5. Associations are being formed for what purpose?

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