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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. Unlike some other oil men, John D. feels that oil will be what?
(a) A nuisance.
(b) A waste of time and money.
(c) The basis of a coming economic revolutions.
(d) A problem to be dealt with in the future.

2. In August 1868, John D. moves his family to a house on _________ Avenue in an area that is called millionaires' row.
(a) Mercer.
(b) Holgate.
(c) Euclid.
(d) Indiana.

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

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

5. John D. now has control of the largest oil refinery in Cleveland at the age of ______________ along with his new partner, Am Andrews.
(a) Twenty-one.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Twenty-five.
(d) Thirty-five.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Big Bill Rockefeller leads the life of a ___________ in his younger years.

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

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

5. Oil is the________ largest export of the United States with the major competition being Russia, and it is cheaper to produce oil in Russia than it is in America.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe John D.'s success during the Civil War.

3. Who does John D. buy out in 1871? Describe this buy-out and John's motivations at this time.

4. Describe the history of the Rockefeller family prior to John D.'s birth.

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

6. Describe the formation and beginning of Standard Oil. What problems arise?

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

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

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

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

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