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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Unlike some other oil men, John D. feels that oil will be what?
(a) A nuisance.
(b) A problem to be dealt with in the future.
(c) The basis of a coming economic revolutions.
(d) A waste of time and money.

2. In the 1850s, whole oil is used to fuel what?
(a) Lighting.
(b) Heat.
(c) Automobiles.
(d) Electricity.

3. He eventually marries who in 1837?
(a) Elizabeth David.
(b) Eliza Davison.
(c) Eliza Doolittle.
(d) Elizabeth Donaldson.

4. Standard Oil is the kind of trust that Roosevelt wants to do what to?
(a) Create.
(b) Bust.
(c) Understand.
(d) Improve.

5. The ________________ begins its investigation of Standard Oil.
(a) The Better Business Bureau.
(b) Secret Service.
(c) Federal Bureau of Investigations.
(d) Bureau of Corporations.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The Sherman Antitrust legislation is introduced in Congress by Senator John Sherman of Ohio in ___________.

3. A group known as what is active on Wall Street and consists of Henry H. Rogers, James Stillman and William Rockefeller?

4. By the mid-1890s, public sentiment is to do what, regarding trusts?

5. John D. now has control of the largest oil refinery in Cleveland at the age of ______________ along with his new partner, Am Andrews.

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