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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Senior begins transferring his wealth to Junior in 1917 due to what reason?
(a) He is ill.
(b) He does not want the responsibility of the family wealth.
(c) He wants his children to have most of his money.
(d) A change in the inheritance tax.

2. John D. continues to single-handed support what university until 1910?
(a) The University of Akron.
(b) Kent State University.
(c) The University of Chicago.
(d) Northwestern University.

3. Junior resigns in 1910, preferring to devote his efforts to what?
(a) Philanthropy.
(b) His Colorado business.
(c) Caring for his family.
(d) The auto industry.

4. In 1922, who dies of pneumonia?
(a) Edith.
(b) William.
(c) Bill.
(d) Frank.

5. What are the project's first goals to establish?
(a) Private schools.
(b) Colleges.
(c) Grade schools.
(d) High schools.

6. As Senior becomes more reclusive, the limelight shifts to Junior and focuses on the wealth he will inherit. Does Junior like the limelight?
(a) Only at first.
(b) Only much later in life.
(c) No.
(d) Yes.

7. What does the news of the fine cause?
(a) Mass hysteria.
(b) A rise in the stock market.
(c) The Great Depression.
(d) A stock market slump and bank panics.

8. Violence erupts, and some strikers are killed along with women and children. The event becomes known as what?
(a) The Ludlow Collapse.
(b) The Ludlow Crisis.
(c) The Ludlow Massacre.
(d) The Ludlow Explosion.

9. The great trust begins to lose its legal battles. Their Indiana company receives a ___________ fine.
(a) $2.4 billion.
(b) $29.4 million.
(c) $2.9 million.
(d) $294 million.

10. Crowds blame who?
(a) Senior.
(b) Junior.
(c) Those going on strike.
(d) Junior and Senior.

11. Abby enjoys spending time with whom?
(a) Her church family.
(b) Her husband.
(c) Her children.
(d) Her friends.

12. In 1897, why does the Ohio Attorney General feel the Ohio company is in contempt of court?
(a) The trust is still in force and the certificates cannot be redeemed for show.
(b) The trust will not give the appropriate documents to the court.
(c) The company has broken several laws.
(d) The company has grown too large.

13. After the assassination of McKinley, who becomes President?
(a) Dwight D. Eisenhower.
(b) Theodore Roosevelt.
(c) Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
(d) Herbert Hoover.

14. By the mid-1890s, public sentiment is to do what, regarding trusts?
(a) Curtail the trusts.
(b) Create more trusts.
(c) Combine the trusts.
(d) Create smaller trusts.

15. The President has plans for a new cabinet department that will have what which can investigate the trusts?
(a) A Bureau of Corporations.
(b) A Secret Service.
(c) A Federal Bureau of Investigations.
(d) A Bureau of Detectives.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rockefeller is continually besieged with requests for what?

2. Standard Oil is the kind of trust that Roosevelt wants to do what to?

3. Senior remains in seclusion at ________________, avoiding the process servers.

4. The Rockefellers fund what seminary in Atlanta?

5. Junior is shaken by the Ludlow affair. How does he emerge?

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