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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. Rockefeller now sets a goal of absorbing what refiners into Standard Oil and he easily succeeds in absorbing the two largest refiners?
(a) The Pittsburgh and Philadelphia.
(b) The Philadelphia and New York.
(c) The Cleveland and Pittsburgh.
(d) The Columbus and Cleveland.

2. Public sentiment against what begins to grow?
(a) Oil companies.
(b) Industry.
(c) Small companies.
(d) Monopolies.

3. There are _________________ during the post civil War period.
(a) Debts to settle.
(b) Fortunes to be lost.
(c) Slaves to set free.
(d) Fortunes to be made.

4. In the 1850s, whole oil is used to fuel what?
(a) Lighting.
(b) Automobiles.
(c) Heat.
(d) Electricity.

5. The Rockefellers live in Moravia on ninety acres on one of the Finger Lakes, _________________.
(a) Oneida Lake.
(b) Seneca Lake.
(c) Owasco Lake.
(d) Cayuga Lake.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does the economy enter into a downturn that lasts for six years?

2. At this time, there is oil in what state?

3. Bill works as what, selling cancer cures?

4. In what year do John D. and Maurice B. Clark open their own business?

5. The Bradford producers are pumping so much oil, that Standard Oil refuses to do what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what Rockefeller does to control those in transport.

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

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

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

5. Describe William Avery Rockefeller prior to his marriage to Eliza.

6. What does John D. do to keep his father's bigamist lifestyle a secret?

7. What is the Pittsburgh Plan? Why is it dissolved?

8. What does Big Bill do in Moravia?

9. Describe the economy during the post Civil War period.

10. Describe the oil industry in the middle of 1880.

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