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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. They have a son, ________________ Rockefeller who is born in Granger, New York in 1810.
(a) William Allen.
(b) William Aaron.
(c) William Avery.
(d) William Austin.

3. The last pocket of resistance lies with what refiners and they are brought into the fold by 1877?
(a) The New York and Virginia.
(b) The Baltimore and Boston.
(c) The New Jersey and New York.
(d) The Baltimore and West Virginia.

4. John D. is able to negotiate good rates on the railroads for what reason?
(a) Many of the railroad owners owe him favors.
(b) He has worked in the railroad industry.
(c) Many of the railroad owners are Standard Oil stockholders.
(d) He has many friends in the railroad industry.

5. Rockefeller begins to integrate vertically for what reason?
(a) To insure high volume and low costs.
(b) To insure high volume and high costs.
(c) To insure low volumen and high costs.
(d) To insure low volume and low costs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Within _____ years he has absorbed almost all of them.

2. Economic development is ___________ as a result of the war.

3. He eventually marries who in 1837?

4. 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.

5. Public sentiment against what begins to grow?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe John D.'s life while living on Euclid Avenue.

2. What does John D. do to keep his father's bigamist lifestyle a secret?

3. What are the results of new oil discoveries in Pennsylvania?

4. Describe John D.'s relationship with Laura Celestia Spelman.

5. What takes place during the depression of 1873?

6. Describe the Rockefeller homes.

7. Describe the formation and beginning of Standard Oil. What problems arise?

8. Describe the relationship between John D. Rockefeller and John D. Archbold.

9. What discoveries are made regarding oil at this time? how does this affect John D.?

10. How does John D. end up with control with the largest oil refinery in Cleveland?

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