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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 8 | Part 2, Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who favored favored domestic spending over war preparations against Germany in 1911?
(a) Nicholas II
(b) Woodrow Wilson
(c) Nelson Mandela
(d) Winston Churchill

2. Who launched an investigation into Standard Oil?
(a) Theodore Roosevelt
(b) H. H. Rogers
(c) Woodrow Wilson
(d) Mark Twain

3. What company did John D. Rockefeller and Henry Flagler start?
(a) Standard Oil Company
(b) Exxon Mobil, Inc.
(c) Citgo, Inc.
(d) Irving Oil Company

4. What method of delivery for oil did the oil companies settle on to avoid teamster conflicts?
(a) Pipelines
(b) Boats
(c) Tanker trucks
(d) Trains

5. Britain wanted to keep whose oil out of the hands of the Russians and French in the early 1900s?
(a) Canadian
(b) South African
(c) Sumatran
(d) Persian

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did England sign in 1907 to foil German penetration into the Middle East?

3. Who perfected the incandescent light bulb?

4. What was lacking in the mid-19th century in regard to oil?

5. By 1915, APOC was supplying how much of the British Navy's oil needs?

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