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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 only competition to Standard is what company?
(a) British Petroleum.
(b) The Sun Oil Company.
(c) Citgo.
(d) Chevron Corporation.

2. 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 Standard Oil Crowd.
(c) The Oil Crowd.
(d) The Banking Crowd.

3. Who owns the Russian operation?
(a) The Roosevelts.
(b) The Nobel Brothers.
(c) The Chinese.
(d) The Czar.

4. The Sherman Antitrust legislation is introduced in Congress by Senator John Sherman of Ohio in ___________.
(a) December 1890.
(b) December 1891.
(c) December 1889.
(d) December 1887.

5. Bill continues his wanderings and becomes a ___________ when he marries Margaret Allen in 1855.
(a) Husband.
(b) Father.
(c) Bigamist.
(d) Happy man.

Short Answer Questions

1. Junior enters Brown University in what year?

2. Rockefeller's Cleveland refineries are further from what area than the Oil Regions refineries are?

3. 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?

4. He is eventually hired by Hewitt and Tuttle as what?

5. The Rockefellers acquire what bank which handles most of the trust companies?

(see the answer key)

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