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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Bill works as what, selling cancer cures?
(a) A family physician.
(b) A traveling medicine man.
(c) A homeopathic physician.
(d) A surgeon.

2. 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) Cleveland.
(b) Detroit.
(c) Toledo.
(d) Columbus.

3. John D. receives a good introduction to the business world at Hewitt and Tuttle. He learns a great deal about what?
(a) The oil industry.
(b) The book industry.
(c) The mercantile industry.
(d) The transportation industry.

4. There are _________________ during the post civil War period.
(a) Fortunes to be made.
(b) Fortunes to be lost.
(c) Debts to settle.
(d) Slaves to set free.

5. In August of 1855, he begins looking for employment for what reason?
(a) So he does not have to depend on his father.
(b) So he can something to keep him busy.
(c) So he can care for his father.
(d) So he can support his family.

Short Answer Questions

1. He eventually marries who in 1837?

2. Big Bill brings his former housekeeper and mistress, _______________, to live with them and has children with both women.

3. Descendants Godfrey and Lucy immigrate to sparsely settled territory around ________, New York in the 1830s.

4. In 1860, the first kerosene is made in what city by C. A. Dean?

5. They live where for the first six months of their marriage?

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