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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By 1870, there is so much overproduction and falling prices that John D. begins to worry about what?
(a) His wealth.
(b) His family.
(c) His health.
(d) The economy.

2. Descendants Godfrey and Lucy immigrate to sparsely settled territory around ________, New York in the 1830s.
(a) Ithaca.
(b) New Rochelle.
(c) East Hampton.
(d) New York.

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

4. At this time, John D. is also buying the New York refineries through who?
(a) His brother William.
(b) His brother, Frank.
(c) His friend, George.
(d) His father, Bill.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Big Bill married for what reason?

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

3. Rockefeller's Cleveland refineries are further from what area than the Oil Regions refineries are?

4. The price of crude oil is extremely ___________.

5. Do the refiners like the plan?

(see the answer key)

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