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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Rockefellers live in Moravia on ninety acres on one of the Finger Lakes, _________________.
(a) Owasco Lake.
(b) Seneca Lake.
(c) Oneida Lake.
(d) Cayuga Lake.

2. Rockefeller now sets a goal of absorbing what refiners into Standard Oil and he easily succeeds in absorbing the two largest refiners?
(a) The Cleveland and Pittsburgh.
(b) The Philadelphia and New York.
(c) The Columbus and Cleveland.
(d) The Pittsburgh and Philadelphia.

3. Big Bill Rockefeller leads the life of a ___________ in his younger years.
(a) Wealthy man.
(b) Priest.
(c) Vagabond.
(d) Monk.

4. In what year do John D. and Maurice B. Clark open their own business?
(a) 1833.
(b) 1855.
(c) 1844.
(d) 1866.

5. They live where for the first six months of their marriage?
(a) With Bill.
(b) In Toledo.
(c) With William.
(d) With Eliza.

Short Answer Questions

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

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?

3. John D. receives a good introduction to the business world at Hewitt and Tuttle. He learns a great deal about what?

4. He structures his schedule so he does what after meals?

5. John D. paces himself for what reason?

(see the answer key)

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