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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?
(a) Margaret Allen.
(b) Martha Allison.
(c) Macy Alexander.
(d) Mary Allerton.

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

6. In what year does the economy enter into a downturn that lasts for six years?
(a) 1877.
(b) 1837.
(c) 1833.
(d) 1873.

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

8. Are the Rockefellers practitioners of conspicuous consumption?
(a) Only much later.
(b) Only at first.
(c) No.
(d) Yes.

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

10. The boys are enrolled in school and eventually the family moves to what city in the mid 1830s and then to a farm in Parma?
(a) Toledo.
(b) Cleveland.
(c) Detroit.
(d) Columbus.

11. In 1860, the first kerosene is made in what city by C. A. Dean?
(a) Cleveland.
(b) Lexington.
(c) Pittsburgh.
(d) Indianapolis.

12. Rockefeller's Cleveland refineries are further from what area than the Oil Regions refineries are?
(a) The East Coast.
(b) The Great Lakes.
(c) The Gulf Coast.
(d) The West Coast.

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

14. Economic development is ___________ as a result of the war.
(a) Accelerated.
(b) Decelerated.
(c) Stopped.
(d) Started.

15. As what is Bill known?
(a) Pa Rockefeller.
(b) Mr. Rockefeller.
(c) Doc Rockefeller.
(d) Crazy Rockefeller.

Short Answer Questions

1. At this time, there is oil in what state?

2. Their Forest Hills home is once what?

3. In August 1868, John D. moves his family to a house on _________ Avenue in an area that is called millionaires' row.

4. They have a ____________ long honeymoon in Canada and along the East Coast.

5. What helps John D. in his business life?

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