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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. John D. is very concerned with displaying what?
(a) Power.
(b) His family.
(c) Wealth.
(d) His failings.

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

3. The townspeople in Richford begin to refer to Big Bill as what?
(a) Wild Bill.
(b) Evil Bill.
(c) Devil Bill.
(d) Crazy Bill.

4. At this time, John D. is also buying the New York refineries through who?
(a) His friend, George.
(b) His brother William.
(c) His brother, Frank.
(d) His father, Bill.

5. In 1870, the partnership of Rockefeller, Andrews and Flagler is dissolved and what is formed?
(a) Sun Oil Company (Ohio).
(b) Standard Oil Company (Indiana).
(c) Sun Oil Company (Indiana).
(d) Standard Oil Company (Ohio).

6. At this time, his friends come from the community at the _______________ church where he is very active in church activities.
(a) Lutheran.
(b) Baptist.
(c) Presbyterian.
(d) Catholic.

7. 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 Cleveland and Pittsburgh.
(d) The Philadelphia and New York.

8. They live where for the first six months of their marriage?
(a) With William.
(b) In Toledo.
(c) With Eliza.
(d) With Bill.

9. The children are overly protected and educated where?
(a) At a local school.
(b) At home.
(c) In a private school.
(d) In a boarding school.

10. He structures his schedule so he does what after meals?
(a) Studies.
(b) Prays.
(c) Reads.
(d) Naps.

11. Descendants Godfrey and Lucy immigrate to sparsely settled territory around ________, New York in the 1830s.
(a) Ithaca.
(b) New Rochelle.
(c) New York.
(d) East Hampton.

12. Bill works as what, selling cancer cures?
(a) A family physician.
(b) A traveling medicine man.
(c) A homeopathic physician.
(d) A surgeon.

13. Public sentiment against what begins to grow?
(a) Oil companies.
(b) Industry.
(c) Monopolies.
(d) Small companies.

14. Do the refiners like the plan?
(a) Yes.
(b) No, they fight it.
(c) No, they ignore it.
(d) No, they suggest another plan.

15. Their Forest Hills home is once what?
(a) A bed and breakfast.
(b) A church.
(c) A school.
(d) A hotel.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1853, Bill moves the family to ______________ and leaves them at the home of his sister and brother-in-law.

2. The country is expanding to the west and new oil companies are forming, and the Standard trust divides the continent into ________ marketing districts.

3. In the 1850s, whole oil is used to fuel what?

4. Oil is found in the Western United States, as well as in what states?

5. In 1864, John D. marries Laura Celestia Spelman, called Cettie. Where did he first meet her?

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