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

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

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

4. "Dad" Joiner found oil in a Texas field that came to be known as what?
(a) The Cash Creator
(b) The Liquid Bank
(c) The Black Giant
(d) The Oil Gusher

5. The Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939 did what?
(a) Gave Poland to Russia
(b) Ended the Prussian War
(c) Created an alliance aganist Britain
(d) Resumed Russian oil shipments to Germany

Short Answer Questions

1. A Bolshevik newspaper spoke of oil as what?

2. The Rothschilds created what company in 1902?

3. Who did FDR appoint to head the Department of the Interior, in addition to the newly created positions of Oil Administrator and Public Works Administrator?

4. Who used radio to mobilize Arab nationalism and stir up the whole Third World?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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