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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 22-23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Are the Rockefellers practitioners of conspicuous consumption?
(a) No.
(b) Yes.
(c) Only at first.
(d) Only much later.

2. In ________ Johann Peter Rockefeller immigrates to America and settles in New Jersey.
(a) 1742.
(b) 1732.
(c) 1724.
(d) 1723.

3. Who is publishing her scathing expose of Standard Oil at this time?
(a) India Wilkes.
(b) Ida Tarbell.
(c) Idina Menzell.
(d) Ada McClure.

4. In August 1868, John D. moves his family to a house on _________ Avenue in an area that is called millionaires' row.
(a) Euclid.
(b) Indiana.
(c) Mercer.
(d) Holgate.

5. Do the refiners like the plan?
(a) No, they suggest another plan.
(b) No, they fight it.
(c) Yes.
(d) No, they ignore it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Junior enters Brown University in what year?

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

3. In what year do John D. and Maurice B. Clark open their own business?

4. By the mid-1890s, public sentiment is to do what, regarding trusts?

5. He meets Abby Aldrich near the end of his _____________ year.

(see the answer key)

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