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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. There is also funding for _____________ schools who meet their standards.
(a) Art.
(b) Medical.
(c) Music.
(d) Law.

2. He meets Abby Aldrich near the end of his _____________ year.
(a) Freshman.
(b) Junior.
(c) Sophomore.
(d) Senior.

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

4. The ________________ begins its investigation of Standard Oil.
(a) The Better Business Bureau.
(b) Federal Bureau of Investigations.
(c) Secret Service.
(d) Bureau of Corporations.

5. Junior goes to great lengths to do what?
(a) Spend his money wisely.
(b) Keep the children's pictures out of the newspapers.
(c) Hide his wealth.
(d) Protect his wealth.

6. The nation suffers the most severe depression ever in June of what year?
(a) 1895.
(b) 1893.
(c) 1898.
(d) 1890.

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

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

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

10. Standard Oil is the kind of trust that Roosevelt wants to do what to?
(a) Improve.
(b) Bust.
(c) Create.
(d) Understand.

11. Archbold, deciding they need representation in Congress, begins doing what?
(a) Writing letters to Congressmen.
(b) Visiting Congress.
(c) Sending money to certain Congressional members.
(d) Running for Congress.

12. Junior enters Brown University in what year?
(a) 1893.
(b) 1888.
(c) 1983.
(d) 1839.

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

14. In 1902, the President brings an antitrust suit against Northern Securities Company, a holding company of whom?
(a) Senior.
(b) William Rockefeller.
(c) Junior.
(d) J. P. Morgan.

15. Junior is shaken by the Ludlow affair. How does he emerge?
(a) Stronger and more confident in himself.
(b) Destroyed.
(c) The same.
(d) Weaker and more unsure of himself.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Violence erupts, and some strikers are killed along with women and children. The event becomes known as what?

3. John D. spends most of his time where?

4. There is more opposition to Standard Oil as what is formed by a group of independents?

5. As Senior becomes more reclusive, the limelight shifts to Junior and focuses on the wealth he will inherit. Does Junior like the limelight?

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