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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. At this time, John D. is also buying the New York refineries through who?
(a) His brother, Frank.
(b) His brother William.
(c) His father, Bill.
(d) His friend, George.

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

4. Maurice Clark and his brothers are in business with John D. in the refinery and John D. does not like this for what reason?
(a) They do not listen to his ideas.
(b) He does not get along with them.
(c) He does not like the business.
(d) They have the votes to override him.

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

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

7. Big Bill married for what reason?
(a) The money.
(b) He needs a mother for his children.
(c) He is lonely.
(d) He is in love with his wife.

8. He eventually marries who in 1837?
(a) Elizabeth David.
(b) Eliza Doolittle.
(c) Eliza Davison.
(d) Elizabeth Donaldson.

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

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

11. Bill continues his wanderings and becomes a ___________ when he marries Margaret Allen in 1855.
(a) Husband.
(b) Bigamist.
(c) Father.
(d) Happy man.

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

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

14. 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) Fifth.
(d) Sixth.

15. By May ________, Rockefeller controls all the major refineries in the nation and few people outside of the oil industry have ever heard of him.
(a) 1877.
(b) 1875.
(c) 1855.
(d) 1857.

Short Answer Questions

1. Unlike some other oil men, John D. feels that oil will be what?

2. Oil prices tumble and Rockefeller absorbs another group of failing competitors. They have to do this secretly for what reason?

3. 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?

4. John D. is very concerned with displaying what?

5. Over the 1877 to 1883 period, they gradually shift their residence from ____________.

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