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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, Chapter 24.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Which German commander was stopped due to a lack of petrol in North Africa?
(a) Friedrich Bergius
(b) Adolf Hitler
(c) Erwin Rommel
(d) Joseph Stalin

4. Who masterminded strikes against the Rothschilds' interests in Russia?
(a) Joseph Stalin
(b) Immanuel Nobel
(c) John D. Rockefeller
(d) Marcus Samuel

5. Stalin wanted oil from which country to supplement Soviet production?
(a) Iran
(b) Kuwait
(c) Saudi Arabia
(d) India

Short Answer Questions

1. Outside the U.S., oil exploration in the Western Hemisphere centered where?

2. Britain wanted to keep whose oil out of the hands of the Russians and French in the early 1900s?

3. The Royal Dutch company joined forces with what other oil company in 1907?

4. Who stepped in to restore order as majors and independents feuded in the United States?

5. A Bolshevik newspaper spoke of oil as what?

(see the answer key)

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