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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who is in charge of the project?
(a) Junior.
(b) Frank.
(c) Senior.
(d) William.
2. 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.
3. What does a change in New Jersey law legalize?
(a) Banking.
(b) Holding companies.
(c) Monopolies.
(d) Oil mining.
4. The federal antitrust suit is filed in Missouri on November 18, 1906. Its goal is what?
(a) The organizaton of the Standard Oil trust.
(b) The dissolution of the Standard Oil trust.
(c) The redistribution of wealth within the Standard Oil company.
(d) The creation of only one oil company.
5. What does the news of the fine cause?
(a) A stock market slump and bank panics.
(b) Mass hysteria.
(c) A rise in the stock market.
(d) The Great Depression.
6. Senior remains in seclusion at ________________, avoiding the process servers.
(a) Pont Neuf.
(b) Santa Monica.
(c) Poncantico.
(d) Cancun.
7. William is involved with what bank?
(a) Chase Bank.
(b) National City Bank.
(c) The Equitable Trust Bank.
(d) HSBC.
8. The Ohio Attorney General reading a book about trusts which includes a copy of Standard Oil's trust deed indicating what?
(a) The Ohio company has not broken any laws.
(b) The Ohio company is doing well.
(c) The Ohio company also owns refineries in Indiana.
(d) Control of the Ohio company has been transferred out of state, in violation of its Ohio charter.
9. In 1907, John D. buys Roger's shares of what stock?
(a) Macy's.
(b) Standard Oil.
(c) Chase Bank.
(d) Sears and Robuck.
10. Reverend Augustus H. Strong wants Rockefeller to finance what in New York?
(a) A Lutheran university.
(b) A Catholic university.
(c) A Baptist university.
(d) A Presbyterian university.
11. He transfers $475 million to his children between what years with most of it going to Junior?
(a) 1917 and 1922.
(b) 1917 and 1919.
(c) 1917 and 1920.
(d) 1917 and 1918.
12. Junior resigns in 1910, preferring to devote his efforts to what?
(a) Caring for his family.
(b) Philanthropy.
(c) The auto industry.
(d) His Colorado business.
13. As Senior becomes more reclusive, the limelight shifts to Junior and focuses on the wealth he will inherit. Does Junior like the limelight?
(a) No.
(b) Yes.
(c) Only at first.
(d) Only much later in life.
14. John and Abby buy a new house and begin to spend their summers where?
(a) At Mount Desert Island in Maine.
(b) At Islesford In Maine.
(c) At Swans Island in Maine.
(d) At Great Cranberry in Maine.
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. In 1922, who dies of pneumonia?
2. Even Frank Rockefeller volunteers as a source. Why?
3. Rockefeller is continually besieged with requests for what?
4. There are eight hundred _____________________ by 1910 as a result of the efforts of the GEB.
5. The President has plans for a new cabinet department that will have what which can investigate the trusts?
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