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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 26-28.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the assassination of McKinley, who becomes President?
(a) Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
(b) Herbert Hoover.
(c) Theodore Roosevelt.
(d) Dwight D. Eisenhower.

2. A group known as what is active on Wall Street and consists of Henry H. Rogers, James Stillman and William Rockefeller?
(a) The Standard Oil Crowd.
(b) The Banking Crowd.
(c) The Millionaire's Crowd.
(d) The Oil Crowd.

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

4. Associations are being formed for what purpose?
(a) To stop production.
(b) To slow production.
(c) To increase production.
(d) To limit production.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Oil prices tumble and Rockefeller absorbs another group of failing competitors. They have to do this secretly for what reason?

2. What does the news of the fine cause?

3. By May ________, Rockefeller controls all the major refineries in the nation and few people outside of the oil industry have ever heard of him.

4. There are _________________ during the post civil War period.

5. The government wins its antitrust case against Standard oil of New Jersey which is ordered to divest itself of its subsidiaries. The Supreme Court upholds the verdict on May 15, 1911, giving the trust six months to divest. What does the divestiture do to Rockefeller?

(see the answer key)

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