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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. There is more opposition to Standard Oil as what is formed by a group of independents?
(a) The British Patroleum Company.
(b) The Pure Oil Company.
(c) The Exxon Company.
(d) The Sun Oil Company.

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

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

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

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

7. In April 1901 a train full of millionaires, dubbed ____________, including Junior, tours the South, touring black colleges, most of which have been financed with money from the North.
(a) The Millionaire's Trip.
(b) The Millionaire's Journey.
(c) The Millionaire's Train.
(d) The Millionaire's Special.

8. The media response to the Rockefeller philanthropy is what?
(a) He is trying to support those in need.
(b) He is expressing his religious views.
(c) He is showing how much he cares.
(d) He is trying to buy a good reputation.

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

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

11. 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.

12. Union organizers are trying to form a union and the companies bring in what?
(a) Armed guards.
(b) Peace makers.
(c) The National Guard.
(d) Federal troops.

13. John D. Gates began his career as what?
(a) An artist.
(b) A minister.
(c) A philanthropist.
(d) A teacher.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Rockefeller is impressed with Andrew Carnegie's comment that a man who dies rich is what?

2. When Junior will not budge on the issue of the open shop, what happens?

3. He agrees to Harper's plan to establish a university in what city?

4. Cettie dies on _____________.

5. What occurs on January 31, 1910?

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