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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. The President has plans for a new cabinet department that will have what which can investigate the trusts?
(a) A Secret Service.
(b) A Bureau of Corporations.
(c) A Bureau of Detectives.
(d) A Federal Bureau of Investigations.

2. The Elkins Act is passed in 1903 with penalties for what?
(a) Pipeline rebates.
(b) Transporting oil.
(c) Refinery rebates.
(d) Railroad rebates.

3. As a result of this trip, Rockefeller funds _________________ which receives a perpetual federal charter for the promotion of education regardless of race, sex or creed.
(a) The Great Education board.
(b) The General Education board.
(c) The George Edmunds board.
(d) The Generous Educating board.

4. The Morgan Theological Seminary is transferred to the new university and Harper is its president. It opens on October 1, ________.
(a) 1900.
(b) 1895.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1892.

5. The Rockefellers acquire what bank which handles most of the trust companies?
(a) Chase Bank.
(b) Capital One Bank.
(c) The Equitable Trust Bank.
(d) National City Bank.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the assassination of McKinley, who becomes President?

2. The Ohio Attorney General reading a book about trusts which includes a copy of Standard Oil's trust deed indicating what?

3. The Rockefellers fund what seminary in Atlanta?

4. Violence erupts, and some strikers are killed along with women and children. The event becomes known as what?

5. What does Junior begin to collect?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the Millionaire's Special.

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

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

4. What happens after the assassination of McKinley?

5. What results from this trip to the south?

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

7. What is the Elkins Act? What is the purpose of a new cabinet department with a Bureau of Corporations? How does Standard Oil feel about this bureau?

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

9. What does John D. for William Rainey Harper? Why?

10. Describe Junior in Chapter Nineteen.

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