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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 does John D. believe about his fortune?
(a) It upsets other people, so he should donate some to please others.
(b) It is too much for one person and should be given away.
(c) It is a gift from God to be used in the betterment of mankind.
(d) It is a surprise to him, and he plans on enlarging it.

2. The ________________ begins its investigation of Standard Oil.
(a) Federal Bureau of Investigations.
(b) Secret Service.
(c) The Better Business Bureau.
(d) Bureau of Corporations.

3. What are the project's first goals to establish?
(a) High schools.
(b) Colleges.
(c) Grade schools.
(d) Private schools.

4. Chapter Thirty Three opens with the death of who in April 1917?
(a) William.
(b) Junior.
(c) Abby.
(d) Frank.

5. As a result of this trip, Rockefeller funds _________________ which receives a perpetual federal charter for the promotion of education regardless of race, sex or creed.
(a) The Great Education board.
(b) The Generous Educating board.
(c) The General Education board.
(d) The George Edmunds board.

Short Answer Questions

1. Junior is shaken by the Ludlow affair. How does he emerge?

2. He transfers $475 million to his children between what years with most of it going to Junior?

3. There are railroad and bank failures and massive unemployment. What happens to Standard Oil and the other trusts?

4. There are eight hundred _____________________ by 1910 as a result of the efforts of the GEB.

5. John D. spends most of his time where?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Junior in Chapter Nineteen.

2. What happens when the trust begins to lose its legal battles?

3. What deaths occur in Chapter Thirty-three?

4. What does Reverend Augustus H. Strong want from Rockefeller? What does John D. think of this?

5. What is public sentiment regarding trusts by the mid-1890s? What happens in 1897?

6. What happens after the assassination of McKinley?

7. Describe John D. Gates.

8. What happens regarding a shift in the limelight from Senior to Junior?

9. What takes place when Junior decides he wants to separate from all businesses but one, his mining business in Colorado?

10. Describe the federal antitrust suit filed in Missouri.

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