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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. John D. now has control of the largest oil refinery in Cleveland at the age of ______________ along with his new partner, Am Andrews.

2. The Rockefellers live in Moravia on ninety acres on one of the Finger Lakes, _________________.

3. He is eventually hired by Hewitt and Tuttle as what?

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

5. At this time, there is oil in what state?

(see the answer key)

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