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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 22-23.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happens when the Pennsylvania producers form their own plan?
(a) They end up creating new wells.
(b) They end up burning the wells and destroying the equipment of non-cooperating members.
(c) They slow production for Standard Oil.
(d) They invent new equipment.

3. John D. is very concerned with displaying what?
(a) Wealth.
(b) His failings.
(c) His family.
(d) Power.

4. In what year does the economy enter into a downturn that lasts for six years?
(a) 1877.
(b) 1833.
(c) 1873.
(d) 1837.

5. They rarely go out and have to earn their spending money how?
(a) By asking.
(b) By having jobs outside the home.
(c) By being kind.
(d) By performing chores.

Short Answer Questions

1. Their Forest Hills home is once what?

2. Over the 1877 to 1883 period, they gradually shift their residence from ____________.

3. Rockefeller becomes involved in what industry under Gates?

4. By 1870, there is so much overproduction and falling prices that John D. begins to worry about what?

5. What has Standard Oil done with some records that have been requested by the court?

(see the answer key)

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