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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the spring of what year does a grand jury in Pennsylvania delivers indictments against Rockefeller, Flagler and other Standard executives?
(a) 1875.
(b) 1897.
(c) 1879.
(d) 1859.

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

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

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

5. Big Bill does not accompany his family to Richford when they move and does not appear in the area until 1835, posing as what?
(a) A scientist.
(b) An actor.
(c) A blind and deaf peddler.
(d) A doctor.

6. In August 1868, John D. moves his family to a house on _________ Avenue in an area that is called millionaires' row.
(a) Mercer.
(b) Euclid.
(c) Indiana.
(d) Holgate.

7. John D. and Cettie keep their circle of friends from business, family and church and never go where?
(a) Outside.
(b) Out of the city.
(c) To clubs.
(d) To restaurants.

8. When Eliza dies in March 1889, John has it announced that she died how?
(a) A widow.
(b) Famous.
(c) Wealthy.
(d) Happy.

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

10. He is eventually hired by Hewitt and Tuttle as what?
(a) An assistant bookkeeper.
(b) A manager.
(c) A clerk.
(d) A lawyer.

11. The only competition to Standard is what company?
(a) Chevron Corporation.
(b) British Petroleum.
(c) The Sun Oil Company.
(d) Citgo.

12. In ________ Johann Peter Rockefeller immigrates to America and settles in New Jersey.
(a) 1724.
(b) 1723.
(c) 1732.
(d) 1742.

13. 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) Martha Allison.
(b) Margaret Allen.
(c) Macy Alexander.
(d) Mary Allerton.

14. John D. quits school and takes a three month course where at the age of sixteen?
(a) At Bowling Green State University.
(b) At a commercial college.
(c) At the University of Akron.
(d) At Kent State University.

15. In 1878 Thomas Edison invents what?
(a) The radio.
(b) The telephone.
(c) Natural gas.
(d) The light bulb.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The children are overly protected and educated where?

3. He eventually marries who in 1837?

4. In what year do John D. and Maurice B. Clark open their own business?

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

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