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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the 1850s, whole oil is used to fuel what?
(a) Lighting.
(b) Electricity.
(c) Automobiles.
(d) Heat.

2. Are the Rockefellers practitioners of conspicuous consumption?
(a) Yes.
(b) Only much later.
(c) No.
(d) Only at first.

3. Maurice Clark and his brothers are in business with John D. in the refinery and John D. does not like this for what reason?
(a) They do not listen to his ideas.
(b) He does not like the business.
(c) He does not get along with them.
(d) They have the votes to override him.

4. They dissolve their partnership when and agree to auction the firm to the highest bidder?
(a) September 1865.
(b) February 1865.
(c) April 1865.
(d) July 1865.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Rockefeller fights rival pipeline companies, he begins to run into opposition from whom?

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

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

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

5. They rarely go out and have to earn their spending money how?

(see the answer key)

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