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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which country placed troops in the Canal Zone to protect it for oil purposes?
(a) Brazil
(b) Japan
(c) England
(d) Germany

2. What was central in the rise of Arab nationalism?
(a) Western culture
(b) The attack on Egypt
(c) The Shah of Iraq
(d) Oil

3. After Iraq expelled Khomeini, where did he go?
(a) Dallas
(b) Paris
(c) Moscow
(d) Cape Town

4. Britain and France joined with what country to plan an attack on Egypt?
(a) Germany
(b) Israel
(c) The United States
(d) Japan

5. Who called for a "new concept" that would base the price of oil on the cost of alternative energy sources?
(a) Henry Kissinger
(b) William Simon
(c) Richard Nixon
(d) The Shah

6. When did traffic in the Canal resume after the attack?
(a) 1942
(b) 1970
(c) 1913
(d) 1957

7. During the "Arab oil embargo" gas princes rose how much in the United States?
(a) 3 percent
(b) 12 percent
(c) 76 percent
(d) 40 percent

8. OPEC lifted the embargo in what year?
(a) 1983
(b) 1974
(c) 1952
(d) 1998

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

10. Who feared the demise of OPEC?
(a) Ronald Reagan
(b) Alirio Parra
(c) Margaret Thatcher
(d) Jimmy Carter

11. How much was the Trans-Alaskan Pipeline to cost?
(a) 250 million
(b) 10 billion
(c) 2 billion
(d) 45 million

12. The economist E. F. Schumacher called for what?
(a) A dependence on Arab oil
(b) Alternatives to high-cost coal
(c) A short-term view of the world's energy needs
(d) Continued use of a finite resource

13. How many days were the hostages held?
(a) 444
(b) 62
(c) 3
(d) 109

14. What years were OPEC's Golden Age?
(a) 1981-88
(b) 1963-65
(c) 1958-61
(d) 1974-78

15. In 1962, what television show became a hit, celebrating the "black gold" that had transformed the face of America?
(a) Leave it to Beaver
(b) The Beverly Hillbillies
(c) M.A.S.H.
(d) Green Acres

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Carter admit to the US for medical treatment?

2. The Soviet Union invaded which country?

3. The American hostages were held until what happened?

4. Who developed an ideology for pushing the oil industry back to basics, fighting self-serving waste and excess, and protecting disenfranchised shareholders' rights?

5. In 1979, Iran produced what percent of the world's oil?

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