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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The country is expanding to the west and new oil companies are forming, and the Standard trust divides the continent into ________ marketing districts.
(a) Eight.
(b) Nine.
(c) Eleven.
(d) Ten.

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

3. As Senior becomes more reclusive, the limelight shifts to Junior and focuses on the wealth he will inherit. Does Junior like the limelight?
(a) Yes.
(b) Only much later in life.
(c) No.
(d) Only at first.

4. In the 1850s, whole oil is used to fuel what?
(a) Lighting.
(b) Electricity.
(c) Heat.
(d) Automobiles.

5. 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) An actor.
(b) A scientist.
(c) A doctor.
(d) A blind and deaf peddler.

Short Answer Questions

1. Does Standard Oil remain silent throughout the series?

2. When Rockefeller fights rival pipeline companies, he begins to run into opposition from whom?

3. John D., Cettie and other family members travel to Europe in June 1906 and his lawyers tell him to extend his stay for what reason?

4. Due to their distance from the region mentioned in #49, what did Cleveland refineries face?

5. A group known as what is active on Wall Street and consists of Henry H. Rogers, James Stillman and William Rockefeller?

(see the answer key)

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