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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19-21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The boys are enrolled in school and eventually the family moves to what city in the mid 1830s and then to a farm in Parma?
(a) Columbus.
(b) Detroit.
(c) Cleveland.
(d) Toledo.

2. By 1870, there is so much overproduction and falling prices that John D. begins to worry about what?
(a) His health.
(b) The economy.
(c) His wealth.
(d) His family.

3. They rarely go out and have to earn their spending money how?
(a) By being kind.
(b) By having jobs outside the home.
(c) By asking.
(d) By performing chores.

4. A group known as what is active on Wall Street and consists of Henry H. Rogers, James Stillman and William Rockefeller?
(a) The Millionaire's Crowd.
(b) The Banking Crowd.
(c) The Standard Oil Crowd.
(d) The Oil Crowd.

5. When John D. helps Big Bill buy a North Dakota ranch, he does it in such a way that who can never have any claims to it?
(a) Macy Alexander.
(b) Martha Allison.
(c) Mary Allerton.
(d) Margaret Allen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Oil prices tumble and Rockefeller absorbs another group of failing competitors. They have to do this secretly for what reason?

2. Oil is the________ largest export of the United States with the major competition being Russia, and it is cheaper to produce oil in Russia than it is in America.

3. At this time, John D. is also buying the New York refineries through who?

4. When J. P. Morgan decides to form a steel trust in 1900, he has to deal with Rockefeller. Why does Junior handle the negotiations with Morgan?

5. Junior enters Brown University in what year?

(see the answer key)

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