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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) 75 million
(c) 420 billion
(d) 140 billion

2. How did Eisenhower feel about the attack on Egypt?
(a) Surprised and angry
(b) Cautiously happy
(c) Resigned and depressed
(d) Indifferent

3. The global battle of oil production intensified what rivalry?
(a) India-Kuwait
(b) Japan-Britain
(c) Saudi-Iranian
(d) Britain-United States

4. Nixon imposed what in 1971 to fight inflation?
(a) Income taxes
(b) Gas taxes
(c) Carbon embargo
(d) Oil price controls

5. In 1947, the Interior Department started a program to stockpile how many barrels of oil each day?
(a) Two million
(b) Eight hundred thousand
(c) Four thousand
(d) Six hundred

Short Answer Questions

1. "Colonel" Edwin Drake applied the salt drilling techniques of what country to oil?

2. What was Abdullah Tariki's nickname?

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

4. What remained important in finding oil in the 1920s?

5. "Dad" Joiner found oil in a Texas field that came to be known as what?

(see the answer key)

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