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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19-21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Junior enters Brown University in what year?
(a) 1983.
(b) 1888.
(c) 1893.
(d) 1839.

2. 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.
(a) Fourth.
(b) Third.
(c) Fifth.
(d) Sixth.

3. They rarely go out and have to earn their spending money how?
(a) By being kind.
(b) By having jobs outside the home.
(c) By performing chores.
(d) By asking.

4. John D. receives a good introduction to the business world at Hewitt and Tuttle. He learns a great deal about what?
(a) The mercantile industry.
(b) The oil industry.
(c) The book industry.
(d) The transportation industry.

5. By the middle of 1880, more than __________ percent of American oil is shipped abroad.
(a) Fifty.
(b) Forty.
(c) Sixty.
(d) Seventy.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. A group known as what is active on Wall Street and consists of Henry H. Rogers, James Stillman and William Rockefeller?

3. The Rockefeller have how many children who survive?

4. When Eliza dies in March 1889, John has it announced that she died how?

5. The Sherman Antitrust legislation is introduced in Congress by Senator John Sherman of Ohio in ___________.

(see the answer key)

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