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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. The Royal Dutch company joined forces with what other oil company in 1907?
(a) Shell
(b) Standard
(c) BP
(d) Exxon

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

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

4. Who volunteered to lead a cross-country motor caravan to demonstrate the value of motor transportation and to dramatize the need for better highways?
(a) Dwight D. Eisenhower
(b) Calvin Coolidge
(c) Albert B. Fall
(d) Theodore Roosevelt

5. By 1915, APOC was supplying how much of the British Navy's oil needs?
(a) 90%
(b) 50%
(c) 20%
(d) 75%

Short Answer Questions

1. Between 1911 and 1918, oil consumption rose how much in the United States?

2. Which country was not represented at the meeting?

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

4. What did Britain capture to secure the strategic approaches to oil and ensure the safety of the Amir of Kuwait?

5. Who published a book on the history of Standard Oil Company?

(see the answer key)

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