John Jacob Astor, Who Seemed to Exemplify the "Self-Made Man

question 128

Multiple Choice

John Jacob Astor, who seemed to exemplify the "self-made man,"

• A) turned out to be a fraud, for it was discovered he counterfeited much of his fortune.
• B) used his great wealth to finance the North during the Civil War.
• C) made huge profits from distributing the machines built by Thomas Rodgers.
• D) began his economic ascent through the purchase of Philadelphia real estate.
• E) became wealthy by trading goods between the United States and China.

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Quantifier

In logic, an expression (such as "all", "some", or "no") that indicates the quantity of specimens to which a proposition applies.

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A sentence in formal logic that contains a variable and becomes a proposition when the variable is replaced by a definite term.

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