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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) East Hampton.
(b) New York.
(c) Ithaca.
(d) New Rochelle.

2. John D. now has control of the largest oil refinery in Cleveland at the age of ______________ along with his new partner, Am Andrews.
(a) Thirty.
(b) Twenty-one.
(c) Twenty-five.
(d) Thirty-five.

3. 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) Columbus.
(c) Detroit.
(d) Toledo.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In August of 1855, he begins looking for employment for what reason?

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

3. The townspeople in Richford begin to refer to Big Bill as what?

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

5. Bill continues his wanderings and becomes a ___________ when he marries Margaret Allen in 1855.

(see the answer key)

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