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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Unlike some other oil men, John D. feels that oil will be what?
(a) A nuisance.
(b) A problem to be dealt with in the future.
(c) The basis of a coming economic revolutions.
(d) A waste of time and money.

3. Big Bill married for what reason?
(a) He is lonely.
(b) He is in love with his wife.
(c) The money.
(d) He needs a mother for his children.

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

5. He eventually marries who in 1837?
(a) Elizabeth Donaldson.
(b) Eliza Davison.
(c) Eliza Doolittle.
(d) Elizabeth David.

Short Answer Questions

1. Economic development is ___________ as a result of the war.

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

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

4. In 1864, John D. marries Laura Celestia Spelman, called Cettie. Where did he first meet her?

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

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