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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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) A waste of time and money.
(d) The basis of a coming economic revolutions.

3. Big Bill runs a _______________ business and a hired worker who runs his farm.
(a) Shipping.
(b) Logging.
(c) Oil.
(d) Merchandise.

4. In 1864, John D. marries Laura Celestia Spelman, called Cettie. Where did he first meet her?
(a) High school.
(b) Grammar school.
(c) College.
(d) Church.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year do John D. and Maurice B. Clark open their own business?

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

3. There are _________________ during the post civil War period.

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

5. Maurice Clark and his brothers are in business with John D. in the refinery and John D. does not like this for what reason?

(see the answer key)

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