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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Junior separates himself from all businesses but one. What business is this?
(a) Standard Oil.
(b) His family.
(c) His mining business in Colorado.
(d) His philanthropies.

3. During testimony about the incident, Junior claims he had ________ knowledge of the situation in Colorado.
(a) Very little.
(b) No.
(c) A great deal of.
(d) Some.

4. Senior remains in seclusion at ________________, avoiding the process servers.
(a) Pont Neuf.
(b) Poncantico.
(c) Cancun.
(d) Santa Monica.

5. Another Rockefeller program in the South is to eradicate what?
(a) Hookworm.
(b) Rabies.
(c) Ringworm.
(d) Whooping cough.

6. John and Abby buy a new house and begin to spend their summers where?
(a) At Great Cranberry in Maine.
(b) At Islesford In Maine.
(c) At Mount Desert Island in Maine.
(d) At Swans Island in Maine.

7. The Morgan Theological Seminary is transferred to the new university and Harper is its president. It opens on October 1, ________.
(a) 1895.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1892.
(d) 1901.

8. The Rockefellers fund what seminary in Atlanta?
(a) Sacred Heart Apostolic School.
(b) The Spelman Seminary.
(c) Our Lady of the Angels Seminary.
(d) St. John Vianney Minor Seminary.

9. Who is in charge of the project?
(a) Junior.
(b) Senior.
(c) William.
(d) Frank.

10. What does a change in New Jersey law legalize?
(a) Holding companies.
(b) Monopolies.
(c) Banking.
(d) Oil mining.

11. During a strike, the miners are evicted from their company homes and live where?
(a) In campers outside the worksite.
(b) In their cars.
(c) In tents near Ludlow.
(d) In a suburb of Denver.

12. Trust funds of ____ million each were established for Edith and Alta.
(a) $21.
(b) $22.
(c) $12.
(d) $2.

13. Does Standard Oil remain silent throughout the series?
(a) Only at first.
(b) Only at the end of the series.
(c) No.
(d) Yes.

14. By 1891, John D. is grooming _________ as his successor and is gradually shifting responsibilities to him.
(a) Junior.
(b) Frank.
(c) William.
(d) Flagler.

15. Cettie dies on _____________.
(a) March 12, 1918.
(b) March 12, 1951.
(c) March 12, 1915.
(d) March 12, 1925.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the project's first goals to establish?

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

3. The nation suffers the most severe depression ever in June of what year?

4. In 1902, the President brings an antitrust suit against Northern Securities Company, a holding company of whom?

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

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