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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5, Chapter 31.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The exporters' combined earnings was how much in 1977?
(a) 22 million
(b) 420 billion
(c) 75 million
(d) 140 billion

2. Which other country provided oil for Japan in the early 1930s?
(a) Britain
(b) Mexico
(c) South Africa
(d) Dutch East Indies

3. What denied foreign interests access to drilling rights on public lands if their governments denied similar access to Americans?
(a) Foreign Oil Act of 1919
(b) Oil Drilling Act of 1922
(c) Mineral Leasing Act of 1920
(d) Oil Dependency Act of 1923

4. The Rothschilds created what company in 1902?
(a) Asiatic Petroleum Company
(b) Royal Dutch Company
(c) Standard Oil Company
(d) Shell Oil Company

5. The "horseless carriage" was developed by whom?
(a) Thomas Edison
(b) Henry Ford
(c) Orville Wright
(d) Alexander Graham Bell

Short Answer Questions

1. Who took over leadership of Standard from Rockefeller?

2. In August 1928, Deterding met where with Heinrich Riedemann of Jersey Standard-Germany, Cadman of APOC, William Mellon of Gulf, Robert Stewart of Indiana and others to discuss the oil industry?

3. By late 1944, 120,000 barrels of aviation gasoline were delivered daily to where?

4. Who did FDR meet with at the Suez Canal Zone after Yalta?

5. The deals between countries and oil companies for royalties and other fees were referred to as what?

(see the answer key)

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