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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Big Bill brings his former housekeeper and mistress, _______________, to live with them and has children with both women.
(a) Nancy Brown.
(b) Nancy White.
(c) Nancy Grey.
(d) Nancy Black.

2. What helps John D. in his business life?
(a) His common sense.
(b) His wealth.
(c) His friends.
(d) Religion.

3. In the 1850s, whole oil is used to fuel what?
(a) Electricity.
(b) Heat.
(c) Lighting.
(d) Automobiles.

4. 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 creating new wells.
(d) They end up burning the wells and destroying the equipment of non-cooperating members.

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

6. John D. and Cettie keep their circle of friends from business, family and church and never go where?
(a) To clubs.
(b) Outside.
(c) To restaurants.
(d) Out of the city.

7. 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 West Coast.
(d) The East Coast.

8. Within _____ years he has absorbed almost all of them.
(a) Two.
(b) Five.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

9. Descendants Godfrey and Lucy immigrate to sparsely settled territory around ________, New York in the 1830s.
(a) New York.
(b) Ithaca.
(c) New Rochelle.
(d) East Hampton.

10. The Rockefeller have how many children who survive?
(a) Seven.
(b) Four.
(c) Six.
(d) Five.

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

12. At this time, there is oil in what state?
(a) Ohio.
(b) Pennsylvania.
(c) Indiana.
(d) New York.

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

14. After the end of the SIC, Rockefeller comes up with a new plan, called what?
(a) The Pittsburgh Plan.
(b) The Toledo Plan.
(c) The Philadelphia Plan.
(d) The Cleveland Plan.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. There are _________________ during the post civil War period.

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

3. The Sherman Antitrust legislation is introduced in Congress by Senator John Sherman of Ohio in ___________.

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

5. He structures his schedule so he does what after meals?

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