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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Big Bill continues to visit once or twice a year and John D. tolerates the visits for what reason?
(a) He loves his father.
(b) His father has changed his ways.
(c) The children's sake.
(d) His father has asked for forgiveness.

2. Due to their distance from the region mentioned in #49, what did Cleveland refineries face?
(a) Lower transportation costs.
(b) No transportation costs.
(c) Higher transportation costs.
(d) Unsteady transportation costs.

3. They live where for the first six months of their marriage?
(a) With Eliza.
(b) In Toledo.
(c) With Bill.
(d) With William.

4. John D. and Cettie keep their circle of friends from business, family and church and never go where?
(a) To restaurants.
(b) Outside.
(c) To clubs.
(d) Out of the city.

5. In what year do John D. and Maurice B. Clark open their own business?
(a) 1855.
(b) 1866.
(c) 1844.
(d) 1833.

Short Answer Questions

1. Within _____ years he has absorbed almost all of them.

2. They dissolve their partnership when and agree to auction the firm to the highest bidder?

3. In August 1868, John D. moves his family to a house on _________ Avenue in an area that is called millionaires' row.

4. Big Bill married for what reason?

5. Maurice Clark and his brothers are in business with John D. in the refinery and John D. does not like this for what reason?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe John D.'s relationship with Laura Celestia Spelman.

2. What does Rockefeller do to insure high volume and low costs?

3. Describe the history of the Rockefeller family prior to John D.'s birth.

4. How is John D. involved in the Baptist church? How does he benefit from this?

5. What does John D. do to keep his father's bigamist lifestyle a secret?

6. What discoveries are made regarding oil at this time? how does this affect John D.?

7. How does John deal with the turbulent economy of the later part of the nineteenth century?

8. Describe the formation and beginning of Standard Oil. What problems arise?

9. Describe John D.'s success during the Civil War.

10. Describe Big Bill's marriage to Eliza and their living arrangements for the first part of their marriage.

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