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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. John D. preaches what to his workers?
(a) Hope.
(b) Tolerance.
(c) Faith.
(d) Temperance.

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

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

8. 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.

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

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

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

12. By the middle of 1880, more than __________ percent of American oil is shipped abroad.
(a) Forty.
(b) Seventy.
(c) Sixty.
(d) Fifty.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who owns the Russian operation?

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

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

4. They dissolve their partnership when and agree to auction the firm to the highest bidder?

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

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