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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By the middle of 1880, more than __________ percent of American oil is shipped abroad.
(a) Seventy.
(b) Sixty.
(c) Forty.
(d) Fifty.

2. What has Standard Oil done with some records that have been requested by the court?
(a) They have burned them.
(b) They have given them to the court.
(c) They have thrown them away.
(d) They have lost them.

3. The children are overly protected and educated where?
(a) At home.
(b) In a boarding school.
(c) At a local school.
(d) In a private school.

4. At this time, his friends come from the community at the _______________ church where he is very active in church activities.
(a) Baptist.
(b) Presbyterian.
(c) Catholic.
(d) Lutheran.

5. Oil prices tumble and Rockefeller absorbs another group of failing competitors. They have to do this secretly for what reason?
(a) The existing law does not allow Standard Oil to own property outside of Ohio.
(b) The competitors are embarrassed.
(c) According to the law, Standard Oil should not exist.
(d) Rockefeller does not want others to know how powerful he is.

Short Answer Questions

1. They live where for the first six months of their marriage?

2. Big Bill brings his former housekeeper and mistress, _______________, to live with them and has children with both women.

3. Rockefeller begins to integrate vertically for what reason?

4. What helps John D. in his business life?

5. The country is expanding to the west and new oil companies are forming, and the Standard trust divides the continent into ________ marketing districts.

(see the answer key)

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