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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 14-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Big Bill does not accompany his family to Richford when they move and does not appear in the area until 1835, posing as what?
(a) A doctor.
(b) An actor.
(c) A blind and deaf peddler.
(d) A scientist.

3. What helps John D. in his business life?
(a) His wealth.
(b) Religion.
(c) His friends.
(d) His common sense.

4. Big Bill continues to visit once or twice a year and John D. tolerates the visits for what reason?
(a) His father has changed his ways.
(b) He loves his father.
(c) The children's sake.
(d) His father has asked for forgiveness.

5. The price of crude oil is extremely ___________.
(a) Steady.
(b) Low.
(c) Volatile.
(d) High.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. John D. preaches what to his workers?

3. When John D. helps Big Bill buy a North Dakota ranch, he does it in such a way that who can never have any claims to it?

4. John D. quits school and takes a three month course where at the age of sixteen?

5. Big Bill Rockefeller leads the life of a ___________ in his younger years.

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