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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has Standard Oil done with some records that have been requested by the court?
(a) They have thrown them away.
(b) They have lost them.
(c) They have burned them.
(d) They have given them to the court.

2. On October 9, 1901 what does Junior do?
(a) He meets Abby.
(b) He marries Abby.
(c) He graduates from Harvard.
(d) His first child is born.

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

4. Junior maintains a _________ relationship with his father.
(a) Minimal.
(b) Bad.
(c) Wonderful.
(d) Good.

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

6. Unlike John D., William is active in what?
(a) Stock market trading.
(b) Gambling.
(c) The iron ore industry.
(d) The banking industry.

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

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

9. In 1903, Junior begins asking his father to publish an authorized biography for what reason?
(a) To tell their family's story.
(b) To repair the damage done by Tarbell.
(c) To make him famous.
(d) To bring him to the people.

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

11. John D., Cettie and other family members travel to Europe in June 1906 and his lawyers tell him to extend his stay for what reason?
(a) Because they do not want him messing up the case.
(b) Because of the various lawsuits.
(c) Because he needs the vacation.
(d) Because he is ill.

12. They dine with Senior every ____________.
(a) Sunday.
(b) Saturday.
(c) Monday.
(d) Holiday.

13. 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 Journey.
(b) The Millionaire's Train.
(c) The Millionaire's Special.
(d) The Millionaire's Trip.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Junior resigns in 1910, preferring to devote his efforts to what?

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

3. A group known as what is active on Wall Street and consists of Henry H. Rogers, James Stillman and William Rockefeller?

4. The ________________ begins its investigation of Standard Oil.

5. There is also funding for _____________ schools who meet their standards.

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