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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Big Bill does not accompany his family to Richford when they move and does not appear in the area until 1835, posing as what?
(a) A blind and deaf peddler.
(b) A doctor.
(c) An actor.
(d) A scientist.

2. In 1870, the partnership of Rockefeller, Andrews and Flagler is dissolved and what is formed?
(a) Standard Oil Company (Ohio).
(b) Sun Oil Company (Ohio).
(c) Sun Oil Company (Indiana).
(d) Standard Oil Company (Indiana).

3. Due to their distance from the region mentioned in #49, what did Cleveland refineries face?
(a) Unsteady transportation costs.
(b) Higher transportation costs.
(c) Lower transportation costs.
(d) No transportation costs.

4. John D. quits school and takes a three month course where at the age of sixteen?
(a) At Bowling Green State University.
(b) At a commercial college.
(c) At Kent State University.
(d) At the University of Akron.

5. In ________ Johann Peter Rockefeller immigrates to America and settles in New Jersey.
(a) 1732.
(b) 1723.
(c) 1742.
(d) 1724.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the end of the SIC, Rockefeller comes up with a new plan, called what?

2. In what year does the economy enter into a downturn that lasts for six years?

3. Big Bill runs a _______________ business and a hired worker who runs his farm.

4. 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?

5. In what year do John D. and Maurice B. Clark open their own business?

(see the answer key)

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