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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. By 1870, there is so much overproduction and falling prices that John D. begins to worry about what?
(a) His health.
(b) His family.
(c) His wealth.
(d) The economy.

3. In what year do John D. and Maurice B. Clark open their own business?
(a) 1866.
(b) 1855.
(c) 1833.
(d) 1844.

4. Oil is found in the Western United States, as well as in what states?
(a) Ohio and Kentucky.
(b) West Virginia and Kentucky.
(c) Indiana and Ohio.
(d) Kentucky and Indiana.

5. The Ohio Attorney General reading a book about trusts which includes a copy of Standard Oil's trust deed indicating what?
(a) The Ohio company has not broken any laws.
(b) The Ohio company also owns refineries in Indiana.
(c) The Ohio company is doing well.
(d) Control of the Ohio company has been transferred out of state, in violation of its Ohio charter.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Elkins Act is passed in 1903 with penalties for what?

2. Rockefeller becomes involved in what industry under Gates?

3. When John D. helps Big Bill buy a North Dakota ranch, he does it in such a way that who can never have any claims to it?

4. Oil is the________ largest export of the United States with the major competition being Russia, and it is cheaper to produce oil in Russia than it is in America.

5. Junior enters Brown University in what year?

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