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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) Cleveland.
(b) Detroit.
(c) Toledo.
(d) Columbus.

2. When J. P. Morgan decides to form a steel trust in 1900, he has to deal with Rockefeller. Why does Junior handle the negotiations with Morgan?
(a) Morgan and Senior do not like one another.
(b) Morgan trusts Junior.
(c) Senior is slowly giving him more responsibilities.
(d) Morgan and Senior are too busy.

3. In August 1868, John D. moves his family to a house on _________ Avenue in an area that is called millionaires' row.
(a) Mercer.
(b) Holgate.
(c) Indiana.
(d) Euclid.

4. The Rockefellers live in Moravia on ninety acres on one of the Finger Lakes, _________________.
(a) Cayuga Lake.
(b) Oneida Lake.
(c) Seneca Lake.
(d) Owasco Lake.

5. They dissolve their partnership when and agree to auction the firm to the highest bidder?
(a) September 1865.
(b) April 1865.
(c) February 1865.
(d) July 1865.

Short Answer Questions

1. The nation suffers the most severe depression ever in June of what year?

2. Junior enters Brown University in what year?

3. They rarely go out and have to earn their spending money how?

4. By 1891, John D. is grooming _________ as his successor and is gradually shifting responsibilities to him.

5. Reverend Augustus H. Strong wants Rockefeller to finance what in New York?

(see the answer key)

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