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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. What was one of OPEC's goals when it was founded?
(a) To sell oil as cheaply as possible
(b) To keep Western nations out of Arabia
(c) To take over the world's oil production
(d) To restore the price of oil to its precut level

2. For producing nations, oil was a source of what?
(a) Pride
(b) Hardship
(c) Inequality
(d) Serenity

3. 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)

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

5. What was the name of the pipeline that stretched from Texas to the East Coast?
(a) The Alamo Bootstrap
(b) Little Pip
(c) The Dog Collar
(d) Big Inch

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1901, the Shah gave D'Arcy access to how much of the country?

2. What was the main determinant of energy and oil consumption?

3. By 1950, what was the primary fuel source in America?

4. Who become the symbol of the new age of oil?

5. In the early 1930s, the United States provided how much of Japan's oil imports?

(see the answer key)

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