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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The boys are enrolled in school and eventually the family moves to what city in the mid 1830s and then to a farm in Parma?
(a) Columbus.
(b) Detroit.
(c) Cleveland.
(d) Toledo.

2. Rockefeller now sets a goal of absorbing what refiners into Standard Oil and he easily succeeds in absorbing the two largest refiners?
(a) The Pittsburgh and Philadelphia.
(b) The Cleveland and Pittsburgh.
(c) The Philadelphia and New York.
(d) The Columbus and Cleveland.

3. Rockefeller now controls ________ percent of the U.S. oil that is refined.
(a) Ninety.
(b) Seventy.
(c) Eighty.
(d) Sixty.

4. John D. receives a good introduction to the business world at Hewitt and Tuttle. He learns a great deal about what?
(a) The oil industry.
(b) The transportation industry.
(c) The mercantile industry.
(d) The book industry.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. John D. is able to negotiate good rates on the railroads for what reason?

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

3. In August 1868, John D. moves his family to a house on _________ Avenue in an area that is called millionaires' row.

4. Public sentiment against what begins to grow?

5. In the spring of what year does a grand jury in Pennsylvania delivers indictments against Rockefeller, Flagler and other Standard executives?

(see the answer key)

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