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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. Who is publishing her scathing expose of Standard Oil at this time?
(a) Ida Tarbell.
(b) Idina Menzell.
(c) Ada McClure.
(d) India Wilkes.

2. He agrees to Harper's plan to establish a university in what city?
(a) Chicago.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) Indianapolis.
(d) Detroit.

3. Another Rockefeller program in the South is to eradicate what?
(a) Ringworm.
(b) Hookworm.
(c) Rabies.
(d) Whooping cough.

4. Junior is shaken by the Ludlow affair. How does he emerge?
(a) Weaker and more unsure of himself.
(b) Destroyed.
(c) The same.
(d) Stronger and more confident in himself.

5. Trust funds of ____ million each were established for Edith and Alta.
(a) $12.
(b) $2.
(c) $22.
(d) $21.

Short Answer Questions

1. Junior goes to great lengths to do what?

2. John and Abby buy a new house and begin to spend their summers where?

3. He transfers $475 million to his children between what years with most of it going to Junior?

4. The Elkins Act is passed in 1903 with penalties for what?

5. Junior separates himself from all businesses but one. What business is this?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Junior in Chapter Nineteen.

2. What does Senior begin doing with his money in Chapter Thirty-two?

3. What is public sentiment regarding trusts by the mid-1890s? What happens in 1897?

4. What does Reverend Augustus H. Strong want from Rockefeller? What does John D. think of this?

5. By 1891, what is John D. doing regarding Flagler?

6. What problems exist in Senior's life by 1903?

7. What deaths occur in Chapter Thirty-three?

8. Describe the Millionaire's Special.

9. Describe the investigation of Standard Oil by the Bureau of Corporations.

10. What complications exist regarding Cettie's death?

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