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

2. Britain wanted to keep whose oil out of the hands of the Russians and French in the early 1900s?
(a) Persian
(b) South African
(c) Sumatran
(d) Canadian

3. Oil prices dropped after what event?
(a) The Vietnam War
(b) World War I
(c) 9/11
(d) The Civil War

4. Who stepped in to restore order as majors and independents feuded in the United States?
(a) Texas Railroad Commission (TRC)
(b) North American Oil Commission (NAOC)
(c) California Oil Association (COA)
(d) United States Automobile Association (USAA)

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who volunteered to lead a cross-country motor caravan to demonstrate the value of motor transportation and to dramatize the need for better highways?

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

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

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

5. Outside the U.S., oil exploration in the Western Hemisphere centered where?

(see the answer key)

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