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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who instituted a vast building project in the British Navy to transform the fleet to use oil?
(a) Winston Churchill
(b) Woodrow Wilson
(c) Daniel D'Arcy
(d) Kaiser Wilhelm

2. In December 1941, Japan bombed what target in the U.S.?
(a) Channel Islands
(b) Seattle
(c) San Diego Bay
(d) Pearl Harbor

3. Which other country provided oil for Japan in the early 1930s?
(a) South Africa
(b) Britain
(c) Mexico
(d) Dutch East Indies

4. In the early 1930s, the United States provided how much of Japan's oil imports?
(a) 40%
(b) 57%
(c) 16%
(d) 90%

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who became Britain's chief oil supplier just before WWI?

3. Who tried to take over Britain's naval superiority in the 1890s, which instead strengthened Britain's resolve?

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

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

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