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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Due to their distance from the region mentioned in #49, what did Cleveland refineries face?
(a) Lower transportation costs.
(b) No transportation costs.
(c) Higher transportation costs.
(d) Unsteady transportation costs.

2. The Rockefellers fund what seminary in Atlanta?
(a) Sacred Heart Apostolic School.
(b) St. John Vianney Minor Seminary.
(c) Our Lady of the Angels Seminary.
(d) The Spelman Seminary.

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

4. By May ________, Rockefeller controls all the major refineries in the nation and few people outside of the oil industry have ever heard of him.
(a) 1875.
(b) 1857.
(c) 1877.
(d) 1855.

5. There are _________________ during the post civil War period.
(a) Fortunes to be made.
(b) Slaves to set free.
(c) Fortunes to be lost.
(d) Debts to settle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Archbold, deciding they need representation in Congress, begins doing what?

2. In what year do John D. and Maurice B. Clark open their own business?

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

4. Rockefeller now controls ________ percent of the U.S. oil that is refined.

5. The Morgan Theological Seminary is transferred to the new university and Harper is its president. It opens on October 1, ________.

(see the answer key)

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