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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. What helps John D. in his business life?
(a) Religion.
(b) His common sense.
(c) His friends.
(d) His wealth.
2. They rarely go out and have to earn their spending money how?
(a) By being kind.
(b) By asking.
(c) By performing chores.
(d) By having jobs outside the home.
3. John D. is very concerned with displaying what?
(a) His failings.
(b) Wealth.
(c) His family.
(d) Power.
4. In what year do John D. and Maurice B. Clark open their own business?
(a) 1844.
(b) 1833.
(c) 1855.
(d) 1866.
5. In August 1868, John D. moves his family to a house on _________ Avenue in an area that is called millionaires' row.
(a) Mercer.
(b) Indiana.
(c) Euclid.
(d) Holgate.
Short Answer Questions
1. John D. receives a good introduction to the business world at Hewitt and Tuttle. He learns a great deal about what?
2. Are the Rockefellers practitioners of conspicuous consumption?
3. At this time, his friends come from the community at the _______________ church where he is very active in church activities.
4. When Eliza dies in March 1889, John has it announced that she died how?
5. In what year does the economy enter into a downturn that lasts for six years?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe John D.'s success during the Civil War.
2. What are the results of Standard Oil becoming more involved in the railroad business?
3. Describe William Avery Rockefeller prior to his marriage to Eliza.
4. What does John D. do to keep his father's bigamist lifestyle a secret?
5. What does John D. learn while working at Hewitt and Tuttle?
6. How is John D. affected by the invention of the light bulb and natural gas?
7. How does John D. end up with control with the largest oil refinery in Cleveland?
8. Describe what Rockefeller does to control those in transport.
9. Describe the formation and beginning of Standard Oil. What problems arise?
10. Describe the history of the Rockefeller family prior to John D.'s birth.
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