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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which German commander was stopped due to a lack of petrol in North Africa?
(a) Joseph Stalin
(b) Adolf Hitler
(c) Erwin Rommel
(d) Friedrich Bergius

2. Japan believed that what was the biggest liability for Germans in WWI, leading to their defeat?
(a) Cultural beliefs
(b) Petroleum
(c) Money
(d) Tanks

3. A Bolshevik newspaper spoke of oil as what?
(a) Liquid Gold
(b) Oily Funds
(c) Black Money
(d) Quick Cash

4. What event in the 1920s plunged oil into dire straits?
(a) The Great Depression
(b) The Tulsa Race Riot
(c) World War I
(d) Prohibition

5. By 1879, Standard controlled what percentage of U.S. refining capacity, as well as the pipelines, gathering systems, and transportation?
(a) 10%
(b) 25%
(c) 90%
(d) 50%

Short Answer Questions

1. The Royal Dutch Company set up operations where?

2. The Rothschilds created what company in 1902?

3. What denied foreign interests access to drilling rights on public lands if their governments denied similar access to Americans?

4. Who did FDR appoint to head the Department of the Interior, in addition to the newly created positions of Oil Administrator and Public Works Administrator?

5. In 1901, the Shah gave D'Arcy access to how much of the country?

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