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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rockefeller now sets a goal of absorbing what refiners into Standard Oil and he easily succeeds in absorbing the two largest refiners?
(a) The Philadelphia and New York.
(b) The Columbus and Cleveland.
(c) The Cleveland and Pittsburgh.
(d) The Pittsburgh and Philadelphia.

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

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

4. John D. receives a good introduction to the business world at Hewitt and Tuttle. He learns a great deal about what?
(a) The book industry.
(b) The oil industry.
(c) The mercantile industry.
(d) The transportation industry.

5. Unlike some other oil men, John D. feels that oil will be what?
(a) A problem to be dealt with in the future.
(b) The basis of a coming economic revolutions.
(c) A waste of time and money.
(d) A nuisance.

6. John D. is very concerned with displaying what?
(a) His family.
(b) Power.
(c) His failings.
(d) Wealth.

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

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

9. The children are overly protected and educated where?
(a) In a boarding school.
(b) At home.
(c) At a local school.
(d) In a private school.

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

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

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

13. The Sherman Antitrust legislation is introduced in Congress by Senator John Sherman of Ohio in ___________.
(a) December 1891.
(b) December 1887.
(c) December 1890.
(d) December 1889.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the spring of what year does a grand jury in Pennsylvania delivers indictments against Rockefeller, Flagler and other Standard executives?

2. Bill works as what, selling cancer cures?

3. The Bradford producers are pumping so much oil, that Standard Oil refuses to do what?

4. 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?

5. When Eliza dies in March 1889, John has it announced that she died how?

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