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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Reverend Augustus H. Strong wants Rockefeller to finance what in New York?

3. The Morgan Theological Seminary is transferred to the new university and Harper is its president. It opens on October 1, ________.

4. Senior remains in seclusion at ________________, avoiding the process servers.

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.

Short Essay Questions

1. What problems exist in Senior's life by 1903?

2. How does John change after Cettie's death?

3. Describe the Millionaire's Special.

4. Describe life in the Rockefeller family in Chapter Thirty-two.

5. What leads and encompasses the Ludlow Massacre?

6. Describe John D. Gates.

7. What does Senior begin doing with his money in Chapter Thirty-two?

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

9. Describe the investigation of Standard Oil by the Bureau of Corporations.

10. How does Rockefeller support the field of medicine?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Big Bill is a bigamist.

Part 1) Who is Big Bill? How does he come to be a bigamist? Are you surprised by this? Why or why not?

Part 2) How does this affect his wife Eliza, John D., and John D.'s siblings? Why is nothing done about Bill's behavior?

Part 3) How is Bill a thorn in John's side throughout much of his life? How does he deal with this? What does this reveal about John D.?

Essay Topic 2

The nation suffers a severe depression in June 1893.

Part 1) Describe this depression. How is the nation affected? How is John D. and his family affected?

Part 2) How does this depression compare to other times of depression in the U.S.? Is this one as bad as the Great Depression of the 1930s? Why or why not?

Part 3) How does the nation get out of this depression? What can we, today, learn from this?

Essay Topic 3

John D. is philanthropic.

Part 1) What philanthropies does he support? How and why does he support them?

Part 2) What do critics say about John D.'s philanthropic activities? Why do they say this? Do you agree? Why or why not?

Part 3) How is this desire to help others instilled in John D.'s children? How do these Rockefeller organizations help people today?

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