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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rockefeller is impressed with Andrew Carnegie's comment that a man who dies rich is what?
(a) Rich.
(b) Disgraced.
(c) Lost.
(d) Worthless.

2. His father purchases the Colorado Fuel and Iron company in what year?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1921.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1920.

3. By the mid-1890s, public sentiment is to do what, regarding trusts?
(a) Create more trusts.
(b) Combine the trusts.
(c) Curtail the trusts.
(d) Create smaller trusts.

4. There is also funding for _____________ schools who meet their standards.
(a) Art.
(b) Music.
(c) Medical.
(d) Law.

5. He transfers $475 million to his children between what years with most of it going to Junior?
(a) 1917 and 1919.
(b) 1917 and 1922.
(c) 1917 and 1918.
(d) 1917 and 1920.

6. Union organizers are trying to form a union and the companies bring in what?
(a) Armed guards.
(b) Peace makers.
(c) The National Guard.
(d) Federal troops.

7. In 1902, the President brings an antitrust suit against Northern Securities Company, a holding company of whom?
(a) Senior.
(b) J. P. Morgan.
(c) Junior.
(d) William Rockefeller.

8. Senior begins transferring his wealth to Junior in 1917 due to what reason?
(a) A change in the inheritance tax.
(b) He wants his children to have most of his money.
(c) He is ill.
(d) He does not want the responsibility of the family wealth.

9. Trust funds of ____ million each were established for Edith and Alta.
(a) $22.
(b) $21.
(c) $12.
(d) $2.

10. The media response to the Rockefeller philanthropy is what?
(a) He is trying to buy a good reputation.
(b) He is showing how much he cares.
(c) He is trying to support those in need.
(d) He is expressing his religious views.

11. Even Frank Rockefeller volunteers as a source. Why?
(a) He feels pressure from the government.
(b) He wants to do what is right.
(c) He believes his brother has broken the law.
(d) He feels his brother has ruined his life.

12. William is involved with what bank?
(a) National City Bank.
(b) Chase Bank.
(c) HSBC.
(d) The Equitable Trust Bank.

13. Crowds blame who?
(a) Those going on strike.
(b) Junior.
(c) Junior and Senior.
(d) Senior.

14. There are railroad and bank failures and massive unemployment. What happens to Standard Oil and the other trusts?
(a) They support each other.
(b) They remain healthy.
(c) They disband.
(d) They grow weak.

15. 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?
(a) Senior is slowly giving him more responsibilities.
(b) Morgan and Senior are too busy.
(c) Morgan trusts Junior.
(d) Morgan and Senior do not like one another.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the project's first goals to establish?

2. Junior goes to great lengths to do what?

3. What does Junior begin to collect?

4. John and Abby buy a new house and begin to spend their summers where?

5. The trust does what to satisfy the courts?

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