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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Big Bill brings his former housekeeper and mistress, _______________, to live with them and has children with both women.
(a) Nancy Grey.
(b) Nancy Black.
(c) Nancy Brown.
(d) Nancy White.

2. Big Bill runs a _______________ business and a hired worker who runs his farm.
(a) Logging.
(b) Oil.
(c) Shipping.
(d) Merchandise.

3. In ________ Johann Peter Rockefeller immigrates to America and settles in New Jersey.
(a) 1732.
(b) 1724.
(c) 1742.
(d) 1723.

4. Their Forest Hills home is once what?
(a) A hotel.
(b) A church.
(c) A bed and breakfast.
(d) A school.

5. He is eventually hired by Hewitt and Tuttle as what?
(a) A clerk.
(b) A manager.
(c) An assistant bookkeeper.
(d) A lawyer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Descendants Godfrey and Lucy immigrate to sparsely settled territory around ________, New York in the 1830s.

2. What happens when the Pennsylvania producers form their own plan?

3. Public sentiment against what begins to grow?

4. In 1864, John D. marries Laura Celestia Spelman, called Cettie. Where did he first meet her?

5. John D. quits school and takes a three month course where at the age of sixteen?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Rockefeller do to insure high volume and low costs?

2. How does John D. end up with control with the largest oil refinery in Cleveland?

3. What are the results of Standard Oil becoming more involved in the railroad business?

4. What ends John D.'s plans of attending college? What does he do instead?

5. Describe the Rockefeller homes.

6. What does Big Bill do in Moravia?

7. What does John D. learn while working at Hewitt and Tuttle?

8. Describe the relationship between John D. Rockefeller and John D. Archbold.

9. How does John deal with the turbulent economy of the later part of the nineteenth century?

10. Describe Big Bill's marriage to Eliza and their living arrangements for the first part of their marriage.

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