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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) Six hundred
(c) Four thousand
(d) Two million

2. The Rothschilds created what company in 1902?
(a) Shell Oil Company
(b) Royal Dutch Company
(c) Asiatic Petroleum Company
(d) Standard Oil Company

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

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

5. Who stepped in to restore order as majors and independents feuded in the United States?
(a) North American Oil Commission (NAOC)
(b) California Oil Association (COA)
(c) United States Automobile Association (USAA)
(d) Texas Railroad Commission (TRC)

Short Answer Questions

1. When did traffic in the Canal resume after the attack?

2. Early in 1942, Hitler developed which plan, aimed at the Caucasus and beyond, to the oil fields of Iran and Iraq, and onward to India?

3. RDSG geologists put which country atop the list of potential oil finds?

4. In 1944, the Allies targeted what with bombings in Germany?

5. Germans pioneered the extraction of what from coal before World War I?

(see the answer key)

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