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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 did Britain capture to secure the strategic approaches to oil and ensure the safety of the Amir of Kuwait?
(a) Tehran
(b) Beirut
(c) Basra
(d) Jerusalem

2. What did England sign in 1907 to foil German penetration into the Middle East?
(a) English-Saudi Agreement
(b) Anglo-Russian Convention
(c) London-Turkey Treaty
(d) England-Persia Agreement

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

4. 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

5. What denied foreign interests access to drilling rights on public lands if their governments denied similar access to Americans?
(a) Mineral Leasing Act of 1920
(b) Foreign Oil Act of 1919
(c) Oil Drilling Act of 1922
(d) Oil Dependency Act of 1923

Short Answer Questions

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

2. By 1879, Standard controlled what percentage of U.S. refining capacity, as well as the pipelines, gathering systems, and transportation?

3. Who stepped in to restore order as majors and independents feuded in the United States?

4. The Royal Dutch Company set up operations where?

5. The Rothschilds created what company in 1902?

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