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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 12 | Part 2, Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which Swedish inventor established a considerable industrial company in Russia?
(a) Nils von Dardel
(b) Nicklas Lidstrom
(c) Immanuel Nobel
(d) Auguste Comte

2. What event in the 1920s plunged oil into dire straits?
(a) World War I
(b) Prohibition
(c) The Tulsa Race Riot
(d) The Great Depression

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

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

5. What remained important in finding oil in the 1920s?
(a) Geological studies
(b) Communication
(c) Aerial pictures
(d) Luck

Short Answer Questions

1. Who bought out Maurice Clark for $72,000?

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

3. What company did John D. Rockefeller and Henry Flagler start?

4. The Rothschilds created what company in 1902?

5. What denied foreign interests access to drilling rights on public lands if their governments denied similar access to Americans?

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