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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 26-28.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Standard Oil is the kind of trust that Roosevelt wants to do what to?
(a) Understand.
(b) Improve.
(c) Create.
(d) Bust.

2. The government wins its antitrust case against Standard oil of New Jersey which is ordered to divest itself of its subsidiaries. The Supreme Court upholds the verdict on May 15, 1911, giving the trust six months to divest. What does the divestiture do to Rockefeller?
(a) It destroys him.
(b) It makes him now only the fifth wealthiest man in the world.
(c) It weakens him.
(d) It makes him even richer.

3. What does the news of the fine cause?
(a) A stock market slump and bank panics.
(b) A rise in the stock market.
(c) The Great Depression.
(d) Mass hysteria.

4. In 1870, the partnership of Rockefeller, Andrews and Flagler is dissolved and what is formed?
(a) Sun Oil Company (Ohio).
(b) Standard Oil Company (Indiana).
(c) Sun Oil Company (Indiana).
(d) Standard Oil Company (Ohio).

5. By 1891, John D. is grooming _________ as his successor and is gradually shifting responsibilities to him.
(a) Frank.
(b) William.
(c) Flagler.
(d) Junior.

Short Answer Questions

1. The nation suffers the most severe depression ever in June of what year?

2. The Morgan Theological Seminary is transferred to the new university and Harper is its president. It opens on October 1, ________.

3. Senior remains in seclusion at ________________, avoiding the process servers.

4. Junior resigns in 1910, preferring to devote his efforts to what?

5. By 1870, there is so much overproduction and falling prices that John D. begins to worry about what?

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