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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. Who perfected the incandescent light bulb?
(a) Thomas Edison
(b) Benjamin Franklin
(c) Alexander Graham Bell
(d) Guglielmo Marconi

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

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

4. A Bolshevik newspaper spoke of oil as what?
(a) Quick Cash
(b) Black Money
(c) Liquid Gold
(d) Oily Funds

5. By 1879, Standard controlled what percentage of U.S. refining capacity, as well as the pipelines, gathering systems, and transportation?
(a) 10%
(b) 50%
(c) 25%
(d) 90%

Short Answer Questions

1. What lead to instigating gasoline rationing in England?

2. Who became Britain's chief oil supplier just before WWI?

3. Who took over leadership of Standard from Rockefeller?

4. The Rothschilds created what company in 1902?

5. Britain wanted to keep whose oil out of the hands of the Russians and French in the early 1900s?

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