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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5, Chapter 32.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much was the Trans-Alaskan Pipeline to cost?
(a) 2 billion
(b) 250 million
(c) 10 billion
(d) 45 million

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

3. What was the main determinant of energy and oil consumption?
(a) Distribution
(b) Income
(c) Resources
(d) Availability

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

5. Which country set production to achieve price objectives?
(a) Saudi Arabia
(b) Kuwait
(c) Iran
(d) Iraq

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. "Dad" Joiner found oil in a Texas field that came to be known as what?

4. The prices of oil did what between 1970 and 1973?

5. What was the greatest "if" in the Middle East after WWII?

(see the answer key)

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