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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, Chapter 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Outside the U.S., oil exploration in the Western Hemisphere centered where?
(a) Panama
(b) Mexico
(c) Brazil
(d) Chile

2. Who set up the Eastern and General Syndicate to develop business opportunities in the Middle East?
(a) Winston Churchill
(b) Thomas Neville
(c) Frank Holmes
(d) Robert Nelson

3. Which country did the United States begin transshipping to in 1940?
(a) Poland
(b) Russia
(c) England
(d) Israel

4. Who masterminded strikes against the Rothschilds' interests in Russia?
(a) Joseph Stalin
(b) Marcus Samuel
(c) John D. Rockefeller
(d) Immanuel Nobel

5. Which act gave FDR power to control exports, including oil?
(a) Manchurian Act of 1937
(b) Imbargo Act of 1939
(c) National Defense Act
(d) Export Safety Act

Short Answer Questions

1. Who became Britain's chief oil supplier just before WWI?

2. In October 1940, who bombed Dhahran?

3. 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?

4. What overcame Ibn Saud's reticence to allow infidel money into his kingdom?

5. The "horseless carriage" was developed by whom?

(see the answer key)

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