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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 29-31.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Descendants Godfrey and Lucy immigrate to sparsely settled territory around ________, New York in the 1830s.
(a) New York.
(b) East Hampton.
(c) New Rochelle.
(d) Ithaca.

2. Rockefeller begins to integrate vertically for what reason?
(a) To insure low volume and low costs.
(b) To insure high volume and low costs.
(c) To insure high volume and high costs.
(d) To insure low volumen and high costs.

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?
(a) Morgan trusts Junior.
(b) Morgan and Senior are too busy.
(c) Morgan and Senior do not like one another.
(d) Senior is slowly giving him more responsibilities.

4. The Rockefellers fund what seminary in Atlanta?
(a) Sacred Heart Apostolic School.
(b) The Spelman Seminary.
(c) St. John Vianney Minor Seminary.
(d) Our Lady of the Angels Seminary.

5. Oil is found in the Western United States, as well as in what states?
(a) Indiana and Ohio.
(b) Ohio and Kentucky.
(c) Kentucky and Indiana.
(d) West Virginia and Kentucky.

Short Answer Questions

1. They have a son, ________________ Rockefeller who is born in Granger, New York in 1810.

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

3. Their Forest Hills home is once what?

4. The Bradford producers are pumping so much oil, that Standard Oil refuses to do what?

5. After the assassination of McKinley, who becomes President?

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