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

2. The Royal Dutch company joined forces with what other oil company in 1907?
(a) Shell
(b) Exxon
(c) Standard
(d) BP

3. Outside the U.S., oil exploration in the Western Hemisphere centered where?
(a) Panama
(b) Mexico
(c) Chile
(d) Brazil

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

5. Who volunteered to lead a cross-country motor caravan to demonstrate the value of motor transportation and to dramatize the need for better highways?
(a) Dwight D. Eisenhower
(b) Albert B. Fall
(c) Theodore Roosevelt
(d) Calvin Coolidge

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What remained important in finding oil in the 1920s?

3. Who masterminded strikes against the Rothschilds' interests in Russia?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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