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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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) Third.
(b) Fourth.
(c) Sixth.
(d) Fifth.

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

6. The Bradford producers are pumping so much oil, that Standard Oil refuses to do what?
(a) Buy it.
(b) Sell it.
(c) Transport it.
(d) Store it.

7. The last pocket of resistance lies with what refiners and they are brought into the fold by 1877?
(a) The New Jersey and New York.
(b) The Baltimore and Boston.
(c) The Baltimore and West Virginia.
(d) The New York and Virginia.

8. Due to their distance from the region mentioned in #49, what did Cleveland refineries face?
(a) Higher transportation costs.
(b) Lower transportation costs.
(c) Unsteady transportation costs.
(d) No transportation costs.

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

10. Who owns the Russian operation?
(a) The Nobel Brothers.
(b) The Czar.
(c) The Chinese.
(d) The Roosevelts.

11. What happens when the Pennsylvania producers form their own plan?
(a) They invent new equipment.
(b) They slow production for Standard Oil.
(c) They end up burning the wells and destroying the equipment of non-cooperating members.
(d) They end up creating new wells.

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

13. By 1870, there is so much overproduction and falling prices that John D. begins to worry about what?
(a) His health.
(b) The economy.
(c) His family.
(d) His wealth.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. John D. and Cettie keep their circle of friends from business, family and church and never go where?

4. John D. quits school and takes a three month course where at the age of sixteen?

5. Rockefeller now sets a goal of absorbing what refiners into Standard Oil and he easily succeeds in absorbing the two largest refiners?

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