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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the 1850s, whole oil is used to fuel what?
(a) Heat.
(b) Lighting.
(c) Automobiles.
(d) Electricity.

2. Within _____ years he has absorbed almost all of them.
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) Five.
(d) Three.

3. John D. paces himself for what reason?
(a) He is very ill.
(b) To not get overly tired.
(c) To improve his health.
(d) To improve his productivity.

4. Why is her father considered to be a rich man?
(a) He has a great deal of money.
(b) His farm is paid off and he has a little money.
(c) He is a doctor.
(d) He is a senator.

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

6. John D. quits school and takes a three month course where at the age of sixteen?
(a) At the University of Akron.
(b) At Bowling Green State University.
(c) At Kent State University.
(d) At a commercial college.

7. They have a ____________ long honeymoon in Canada and along the East Coast.
(a) Year.
(b) Month.
(c) Week.
(d) Six-month.

8. Over the 1877 to 1883 period, they gradually shift their residence from ____________.
(a) Forest Hill to Euclid Avenue.
(b) From Euclid Avenue to New York City.
(c) From Forest Hill to New York City.
(d) Euclid Avenue to Forest Hill.

9. In the spring of what year does a grand jury in Pennsylvania delivers indictments against Rockefeller, Flagler and other Standard executives?
(a) 1879.
(b) 1875.
(c) 1859.
(d) 1897.

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

11. Maurice Clark and his brothers are in business with John D. in the refinery and John D. does not like this for what reason?
(a) He does not get along with them.
(b) They have the votes to override him.
(c) He does not like the business.
(d) They do not listen to his ideas.

12. When John D. helps Big Bill buy a North Dakota ranch, he does it in such a way that who can never have any claims to it?
(a) Macy Alexander.
(b) Mary Allerton.
(c) Martha Allison.
(d) Margaret Allen.

13. The Sherman Antitrust legislation is introduced in Congress by Senator John Sherman of Ohio in ___________.
(a) December 1890.
(b) December 1889.
(c) December 1887.
(d) December 1891.

14. At this time, John D. is also buying the New York refineries through who?
(a) His brother William.
(b) His father, Bill.
(c) His brother, Frank.
(d) His friend, George.

15. The boys are enrolled in school and eventually the family moves to what city in the mid 1830s and then to a farm in Parma?
(a) Detroit.
(b) Columbus.
(c) Cleveland.
(d) Toledo.

Short Answer Questions

1. Do the refiners like the plan?

2. The Bradford producers are pumping so much oil, that Standard Oil refuses to do what?

3. Descendants Godfrey and Lucy immigrate to sparsely settled territory around ________, New York in the 1830s.

4. What helps John D. in his business life?

5. The last pocket of resistance lies with what refiners and they are brought into the fold by 1877?

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