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

2. Who volunteered to lead a cross-country motor caravan to demonstrate the value of motor transportation and to dramatize the need for better highways?
(a) Calvin Coolidge
(b) Dwight D. Eisenhower
(c) Theodore Roosevelt
(d) Albert B. Fall

3. "Colonel" Edwin Drake applied the salt drilling techniques of what country to oil?
(a) China
(b) Iran
(c) Australia
(d) Kenya

4. J. N. Pews in 1876 pioneered the use of natural gas to light which city?
(a) Boston
(b) Albany
(c) Pittsburgh
(d) New York

5. In the early 1930s, the United States provided how much of Japan's oil imports?
(a) 40%
(b) 90%
(c) 57%
(d) 16%

Short Answer Questions

1. Britain wanted to keep whose oil out of the hands of the Russians and French in the early 1900s?

2. 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?

3. Who subdued much of Arabia and negotiated the exchange of oil for money for his country?

4. Who bought out Maurice Clark for $72,000?

5. Who launched an investigation into Standard Oil?

(see the answer key)

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