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

2. Who published a book on the history of Standard Oil Company?
(a) Ida Tarbell
(b) Sarah Roosevelt
(c) Anna Burton
(d) Grace von Darnell

3. What sprung up to process crude oil into kerosene?
(a) Factories
(b) Refineries
(c) Labratories
(d) Quarries

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

5. J. N. Pews in 1876 pioneered the use of natural gas to light which city?
(a) Boston
(b) Pittsburgh
(c) New York
(d) Albany

Short Answer Questions

1. Who favored favored domestic spending over war preparations against Germany in 1911?

2. "Colonel" Edwin Drake applied the salt drilling techniques of what country to oil?

3. Who instituted a vast building project in the British Navy to transform the fleet to use oil?

4. The Rothschilds created what company in 1902?

5. The "horseless carriage" was developed by whom?

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