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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. In what year does the economy enter into a downturn that lasts for six years?
(a) 1873.
(b) 1837.
(c) 1833.
(d) 1877.

2. Oil prices tumble and Rockefeller absorbs another group of failing competitors. They have to do this secretly for what reason?
(a) The existing law does not allow Standard Oil to own property outside of Ohio.
(b) Rockefeller does not want others to know how powerful he is.
(c) The competitors are embarrassed.
(d) According to the law, Standard Oil should not exist.

3. After the end of the SIC, Rockefeller comes up with a new plan, called what?
(a) The Pittsburgh Plan.
(b) The Toledo Plan.
(c) The Cleveland Plan.
(d) The Philadelphia Plan.

4. By the middle of 1880, more than __________ percent of American oil is shipped abroad.
(a) Forty.
(b) Fifty.
(c) Seventy.
(d) Sixty.

5. Oil is found in the Western United States, as well as in what states?
(a) Ohio and Kentucky.
(b) Indiana and Ohio.
(c) Kentucky and Indiana.
(d) West Virginia and Kentucky.

Short Answer Questions

1. The children are overly protected and educated where?

2. In the spring of what year does a grand jury in Pennsylvania delivers indictments against Rockefeller, Flagler and other Standard executives?

3. The country is expanding to the west and new oil companies are forming, and the Standard trust divides the continent into ________ marketing districts.

4. What helps John D. in his business life?

5. Bill works as what, selling cancer cures?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe John D.'s relationship with Laura Celestia Spelman.

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

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

5. Describe John D.'s life while living on Euclid Avenue.

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

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

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

9. How is John D. involved in the Baptist church? How does he benefit from this?

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

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