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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Big Bill runs a _______________ business and a hired worker who runs his farm.
(a) Merchandise.
(b) Oil.
(c) Logging.
(d) Shipping.

2. The federal antitrust suit is filed in Missouri on November 18, 1906. Its goal is what?
(a) The organizaton of the Standard Oil trust.
(b) The dissolution of the Standard Oil trust.
(c) The creation of only one oil company.
(d) The redistribution of wealth within the Standard Oil company.

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

4. Another Rockefeller program in the South is to eradicate what?
(a) Whooping cough.
(b) Ringworm.
(c) Rabies.
(d) Hookworm.

5. Junior resigns in 1910, preferring to devote his efforts to what?
(a) Caring for his family.
(b) The auto industry.
(c) Philanthropy.
(d) His Colorado business.

Short Answer Questions

1. The new oil at Bradford intensifies the battle between who?

2. He agrees to Harper's plan to establish a university in what city?

3. John D. quits school and takes a three month course where at the age of sixteen?

4. After the assassination of McKinley, who becomes President?

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

(see the answer key)

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