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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 14-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Eliza dies in March 1889, John has it announced that she died how?
(a) Wealthy.
(b) A widow.
(c) Famous.
(d) Happy.

2. They live where for the first six months of their marriage?
(a) With Eliza.
(b) In Toledo.
(c) With Bill.
(d) With William.

3. Oil prices tumble and Rockefeller absorbs another group of failing competitors. They have to do this secretly for what reason?
(a) Rockefeller does not want others to know how powerful he is.
(b) The competitors are embarrassed.
(c) According to the law, Standard Oil should not exist.
(d) The existing law does not allow Standard Oil to own property outside of Ohio.

4. Bill continues his wanderings and becomes a ___________ when he marries Margaret Allen in 1855.
(a) Father.
(b) Happy man.
(c) Husband.
(d) Bigamist.

5. There are _________________ during the post civil War period.
(a) Fortunes to be made.
(b) Debts to settle.
(c) Fortunes to be lost.
(d) Slaves to set free.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who owns the Russian operation?

2. He structures his schedule so he does what after meals?

3. Rockefeller now sets a goal of absorbing what refiners into Standard Oil and he easily succeeds in absorbing the two largest refiners?

4. Over the 1877 to 1883 period, they gradually shift their residence from ____________.

5. Big Bill continues to visit once or twice a year and John D. tolerates the visits for what reason?

(see the answer key)

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