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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which country wanted OPEC to restore quotas at a lower level?
(a) Algeria
(b) China
(c) Indonesia
(d) Canada
2. Oil was completely deregulated in the United States in what year?
(a) 1989
(b) 1981
(c) 1968
(d) 1974
3. Who took over leadership in Libya?
(a) David Barran
(b) Abdullah Tariki
(c) Armand Hammer
(d) Muammar al-Qaddafi
4. What was the most competitive market in the world in the 1950s-60s?
(a) South America
(b) Asia
(c) Europe
(d) Africa
5. Which country put an embargo on Iranian imports?
(a) Britain
(b) Japan
(c) Mexico
(d) Canada
6. Where was a vast gas field found?
(a) Bath, England
(b) Detroit, US
(c) Lima, Peru
(d) Groningen, Holland
7. Who used radio to mobilize Arab nationalism and stir up the whole Third World?
(a) Gamal Abedel Nasser
(b) King Farouk
(c) Ali Razmara
(d) Saddam Hussein
8. Who undercut Middle Eastern oil?
(a) Chile
(b) France
(c) The United States
(d) The Soviet Union
9. Who was put in charge of the Iranian National Oil Company?
(a) Ali Razmara
(b) Mehdi Bazargan
(c) Sir William Fraser
(d) Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
10. What cut the travel time between England and India in half?
(a) The Suez Canal
(b) The Indian Canal
(c) The Panama Canal
(d) The Sioux Canal
11. Which country did not have a quota?
(a) Saudi Arabia
(b) China
(c) Kuwait
(d) Iran
12. OPEC lifted the embargo in what year?
(a) 1998
(b) 1974
(c) 1983
(d) 1952
13. In what year was OPEC founded?
(a) 1922
(b) 1991
(c) 1975
(d) 1960
14. When did traffic in the Canal resume after the attack?
(a) 1970
(b) 1942
(c) 1957
(d) 1913
15. Who called for a "new concept" that would base the price of oil on the cost of alternative energy sources?
(a) William Simon
(b) Henry Kissinger
(c) The Shah
(d) Richard Nixon
Short Answer Questions
1. Which country seized Jerusalem, the West Bank, and the Golan Heights?
2. What was a military action to capture Abadan that the British considered?
3. Oil producing countries were assigned quotas with what target in mind per day?
4. The prices of oil did what between 1970 and 1973?
5. In the late 1970s, oil buyers did what?
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