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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. The Rothschilds created what company in 1902?
(a) Asiatic Petroleum Company
(b) Standard Oil Company
(c) Shell Oil Company
(d) Royal Dutch Company

2. Who took over leadership of Standard from Rockefeller?
(a) Daniel Rockefeller
(b) John Mellon
(c) John D. Archibold
(d) Immanuel Nobel

3. Who launched an investigation into Standard Oil?
(a) H. H. Rogers
(b) Theodore Roosevelt
(c) Mark Twain
(d) Woodrow Wilson

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

5. Who did FDR appoint to head the Department of the Interior, in addition to the newly created positions of Oil Administrator and Public Works Administrator?
(a) Thomas Stirling
(b) Adam Joiner
(c) August Hogg
(d) Harold Ickes

Short Answer Questions

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

2. By 1915, APOC was supplying how much of the British Navy's oil needs?

3. Oil prices dropped after what event?

4. J. N. Pews in 1876 pioneered the use of natural gas to light which city?

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

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