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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Junior resigns in 1910, preferring to devote his efforts to what?

2. Rockefeller is impressed with Andrew Carnegie's comment that a man who dies rich is what?

3. John D. spends most of his time where?

4. Another Rockefeller program in the South is to eradicate what?

5. Senior begins transferring his wealth to Junior in 1917 due to what reason?

Short Essay Questions

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

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 does John D. for William Rainey Harper? Why?

4. What happens after the assassination of McKinley?

5. Describe the investigation of Standard Oil by the Bureau of Corporations.

6. What problems exist in Senior's life by 1903?

7. How does Rockefeller support the field of medicine?

8. What happens when the trust begins to lose its legal battles?

9. Describe Junior in Chapter Nineteen.

10. Describe the federal antitrust suit filed in Missouri.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In April 1901, a train full of millionaires, dubbed the Millionaire's Special, tours the south.

Part 1) Why does this group of millionaires travel to the south? How do these millionaires and those in the south benefit from this trip?

Part 2) How does this trip specifically affect Junior? What does he do, as a result of this trip?

Part 3) How are the results of this trip still seen today? How can millionaires learn from these millionaires of the Turn-of-the-Century?

Essay Topic 2

John D. is active in sports.

Part 1) What sports does he enjoy? Why are these sports so important to John D.? How else does John D. care for his body?

Part 2) How does John D. instill these habits in his children? What other habits and beliefs does he instill in them? Why?

Part 3) In what activities do you participate? How do these activities better you?

Essay Topic 3

John D. and Maurice B. Clark open their own business in 1855.

Part 1) Describe this business. Why is this business venture important? What does it reveal about John D.?

Part 2) How is this used as foreshadowing? What are two other successful business ventures? Describe these ventures.

Part 3) Why was John D. so successful? Could this be seen in him as a young man? What can you learn from John D.?

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