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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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.
(a) Fifth.
(b) Third.
(c) Sixth.
(d) Fourth.

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

8. There are _________________ during the post civil War period.
(a) Debts to settle.
(b) Fortunes to be made.
(c) Slaves to set free.
(d) Fortunes to be lost.

9. The price of crude oil is extremely ___________.
(a) Low.
(b) Steady.
(c) High.
(d) Volatile.

10. Oil prices tumble and Rockefeller absorbs another group of failing competitors. They have to do this secretly for what reason?
(a) According to the law, Standard Oil should not exist.
(b) Rockefeller does not want others to know how powerful he is.
(c) The competitors are embarrassed.
(d) The existing law does not allow Standard Oil to own property outside of Ohio.

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

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

13. In 1864, John D. marries Laura Celestia Spelman, called Cettie. Where did he first meet her?
(a) College.
(b) High school.
(c) Church.
(d) Grammar school.

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

15. They have a ____________ long honeymoon in Canada and along the East Coast.
(a) Six-month.
(b) Month.
(c) Week.
(d) Year.

Short Answer Questions

1. In ________ Johann Peter Rockefeller immigrates to America and settles in New Jersey.

2. Within _____ years he has absorbed almost all of them.

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

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

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

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