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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 26-28.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rockefeller is continually besieged with requests for what?
(a) Friendship.
(b) Help.
(c) Advice.
(d) Money.

2. The federal antitrust suit is filed in Missouri on November 18, 1906. Its goal is what?
(a) The creation of only one oil company.
(b) The dissolution of the Standard Oil trust.
(c) The redistribution of wealth within the Standard Oil company.
(d) The organizaton of the Standard Oil trust.

3. He agrees to Harper's plan to establish a university in what city?
(a) Detroit.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) Indianapolis.
(d) Chicago.

4. There are railroad and bank failures and massive unemployment. What happens to Standard Oil and the other trusts?
(a) They support each other.
(b) They remain healthy.
(c) They disband.
(d) They grow weak.

5. The government wins its antitrust case against Standard oil of New Jersey which is ordered to divest itself of its subsidiaries. The Supreme Court upholds the verdict on May 15, 1911, giving the trust six months to divest. What does the divestiture do to Rockefeller?
(a) It weakens him.
(b) It makes him even richer.
(c) It makes him now only the fifth wealthiest man in the world.
(d) It destroys him.

Short Answer Questions

1. They rarely go out and have to earn their spending money how?

2. Associations are being formed for what purpose?

3. Senior remains in seclusion at ________________, avoiding the process servers.

4. In 1870, the partnership of Rockefeller, Andrews and Flagler is dissolved and what is formed?

5. There is more opposition to Standard Oil as what is formed by a group of independents?

(see the answer key)

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