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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Germans pioneered the extraction of what from coal before World War I?
(a) Petroleum
(b) Nitrogen
(c) Oil
(d) Synthetic fuels

2. Who subdued much of Arabia and negotiated the exchange of oil for money for his country?
(a) Chaim Weizmann
(b) Ibn Saud
(c) Rub al-Khali
(d) Harry St. John Bridger

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

4. What did Britain capture to secure the strategic approaches to oil and ensure the safety of the Amir of Kuwait?
(a) Beirut
(b) Tehran
(c) Basra
(d) Jerusalem

5. Britain wanted to keep whose oil out of the hands of the Russians and French in the early 1900s?
(a) Persian
(b) Sumatran
(c) Canadian
(d) South African

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1947, the Interior Department started a program to stockpile how many barrels of oil each day?

2. What company did John D. Rockefeller and Henry Flagler start?

3. What denied foreign interests access to drilling rights on public lands if their governments denied similar access to Americans?

4. In December 1941, Japan bombed what target in the U.S.?

5. Which act gave FDR power to control exports, including oil?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the war years called? Why are they called this?

2. Who found an economical way to get oil? Where did he get the information from? What happened after he discovered this?

3. What was the meeting at Achnacarry Castle about? Who was involved? What was the outcome?

4. What invention threatened Standard's profits? What product did Standard begin focusing on? Was this strategy successful?

5. Into what areas did Standard Oil expand? What was its place in oil production?

6. In what parts of the world did oil drilling and production take place? Where were some of the challenges that oil companies faced in these regions and countries?

7. Describe the exploration for oil that took place as Pennsylvania became depleted? Where was oil found?

8. What tensions existed between the United States and Britain after the war? Why?

9. Who was "Dad" Joiner? What did he discover?

10. What did Germany use to try to disrupt oil distribution? What effect did this have?

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