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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who bought out Maurice Clark for $72,000?
(a) John D. Rockefeller
(b) Daniel Standard
(c) Woodrow Wilson
(d) Marvin H. Davis

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

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

4. The Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939 did what?
(a) Created an alliance aganist Britain
(b) Resumed Russian oil shipments to Germany
(c) Ended the Prussian War
(d) Gave Poland to Russia

5. Who set up the Eastern and General Syndicate to develop business opportunities in the Middle East?
(a) Winston Churchill
(b) Frank Holmes
(c) Robert Nelson
(d) Thomas Neville

Short Answer Questions

1. Who favored favored domestic spending over war preparations against Germany in 1911?

2. By late 1944, 120,000 barrels of aviation gasoline were delivered daily to where?

3. How long did it take Japan to seize control of the oil in the East Indies?

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

5. A Bolshevik newspaper spoke of oil as what?

(see the answer key)

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