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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The country is expanding to the west and new oil companies are forming, and the Standard trust divides the continent into ________ marketing districts.
(a) Ten.
(b) Eleven.
(c) Nine.
(d) Eight.

3. The Bradford producers are pumping so much oil, that Standard Oil refuses to do what?
(a) Buy it.
(b) Transport it.
(c) Sell it.
(d) Store it.

4. Oil is the________ largest export of the United States with the major competition being Russia, and it is cheaper to produce oil in Russia than it is in America.
(a) Third.
(b) Fourth.
(c) Sixth.
(d) Fifth.

5. Oil is found in the Western United States, as well as in what states?
(a) Ohio and Kentucky.
(b) West Virginia and Kentucky.
(c) Kentucky and Indiana.
(d) Indiana and Ohio.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The price of crude oil is extremely ___________.

3. Rockefeller now controls ________ percent of the U.S. oil that is refined.

4. What happens when the Pennsylvania producers form their own plan?

5. John D. now has control of the largest oil refinery in Cleveland at the age of ______________ along with his new partner, Am Andrews.

(see the answer key)

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