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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. What has Standard Oil done with some records that have been requested by the court?
(a) They have thrown them away.
(b) They have burned them.
(c) They have lost them.
(d) They have given them to the court.

2. John and Abby buy a new house and begin to spend their summers where?
(a) At Islesford In Maine.
(b) At Mount Desert Island in Maine.
(c) At Great Cranberry in Maine.
(d) At Swans Island in Maine.

3. The ________________ begins its investigation of Standard Oil.
(a) The Better Business Bureau.
(b) Bureau of Corporations.
(c) Federal Bureau of Investigations.
(d) Secret Service.

4. There is more opposition to Standard Oil as what is formed by a group of independents?
(a) The Pure Oil Company.
(b) The Exxon Company.
(c) The British Patroleum Company.
(d) The Sun Oil Company.

5. They dine with Senior every ____________.
(a) Sunday.
(b) Holiday.
(c) Saturday.
(d) Monday.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Rockefellers fund what seminary in Atlanta?

2. During testimony about the incident, Junior claims he had ________ knowledge of the situation in Colorado.

3. Cettie dies on _____________.

4. His father purchases the Colorado Fuel and Iron company in what year?

5. Reverend Augustus H. Strong wants Rockefeller to finance what in New York?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe life in the Rockefeller family in Chapter Thirty-two.

2. What is the Elkins Act? What is the purpose of a new cabinet department with a Bureau of Corporations? How does Standard Oil feel about this bureau?

3. What is public sentiment regarding trusts by the mid-1890s? What happens in 1897?

4. What results from this trip to the south?

5. What leads and encompasses the Ludlow Massacre?

6. What happens regarding a shift in the limelight from Senior to Junior?

7. Describe the Millionaire's Special.

8. Describe John D. Gates.

9. What complications exist regarding Cettie's death?

10. Describe the federal antitrust suit filed in Missouri.

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