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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Big Bill continues to visit once or twice a year and John D. tolerates the visits for what reason?
(a) He loves his father.
(b) His father has asked for forgiveness.
(c) The children's sake.
(d) His father has changed his ways.

2. When Rockefeller fights rival pipeline companies, he begins to run into opposition from whom?
(a) The public.
(b) The government.
(c) Other refiners.
(d) The government and the public.

3. They rarely go out and have to earn their spending money how?
(a) By having jobs outside the home.
(b) By performing chores.
(c) By being kind.
(d) By asking.

4. Rockefeller now controls ________ percent of the U.S. oil that is refined.
(a) Ninety.
(b) Eighty.
(c) Seventy.
(d) Sixty.

5. They dissolve their partnership when and agree to auction the firm to the highest bidder?
(a) September 1865.
(b) February 1865.
(c) July 1865.
(d) April 1865.

6. John D. begins keeping track of his other expenditures and receipts in a book he calls what?
(a) My Life.
(b) Ledger A.
(c) My Journal.
(d) My Work.

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. Big Bill Rockefeller leads the life of a ___________ in his younger years.
(a) Monk.
(b) Vagabond.
(c) Priest.
(d) Wealthy man.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. He is eventually hired by Hewitt and Tuttle as what?

4. They have a son, ________________ Rockefeller who is born in Granger, New York in 1810.

5. At this time, John D. is also buying the New York refineries through who?

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