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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. Junior goes to great lengths to do what?
(a) Keep the children's pictures out of the newspapers.
(b) Hide his wealth.
(c) Spend his money wisely.
(d) Protect his wealth.

2. The Ohio Attorney General reading a book about trusts which includes a copy of Standard Oil's trust deed indicating what?
(a) The Ohio company is doing well.
(b) Control of the Ohio company has been transferred out of state, in violation of its Ohio charter.
(c) The Ohio company has not broken any laws.
(d) The Ohio company also owns refineries in Indiana.

3. The federal antitrust suit is filed in Missouri on November 18, 1906. Its goal is what?
(a) The creation of only one oil company.
(b) The dissolution of the Standard Oil trust.
(c) The redistribution of wealth within the Standard Oil company.
(d) The organizaton of the Standard Oil trust.

4. When Junior will not budge on the issue of the open shop, what happens?
(a) Federal troops are sent to Colorado.
(b) Private security is sent to Colorado.
(c) The National Guard is sent to Colorado.
(d) Peace makers are sent to Colorado.

5. In what is Junior interested?
(a) Becoming wealthy.
(b) The oil industry.
(c) Corporate reform.
(d) Banking.

Short Answer Questions

1. By 1891, John D. is grooming _________ as his successor and is gradually shifting responsibilities to him.

2. When J. P. Morgan decides to form a steel trust in 1900, he has to deal with Rockefeller. Why does Junior handle the negotiations with Morgan?

3. The ________________ begins its investigation of Standard Oil.

4. In 1902, the President brings an antitrust suit against Northern Securities Company, a holding company of whom?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the Rockefeller family's involvement in banking.

2. What complications exist regarding Cettie's death?

3. What happens when the Ohio Attorney General reading a book about trusts which includes a copy of Standard Oil's trust deed indicating that control of the Ohio company has been transferred out of state, in violation of its Ohio charter.

4. How does Rockefeller support the field of medicine?

5. What happens when the trust begins to lose its legal battles?

6. Describe Junior in Chapter Nineteen.

7. Describe the Millionaire's Special.

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

9. Describe life in the Rockefeller family in Chapter Thirty-two.

10. Describe the dealings between J.P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller.

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