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

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

3. Early in 1942, Hitler developed which plan, aimed at the Caucasus and beyond, to the oil fields of Iran and Iraq, and onward to India?
(a) Operation Caucasus
(b) Operation Bleu
(c) Operation Volkswagon
(d) Operation Soviet

4. Which act gave FDR power to control exports, including oil?
(a) National Defense Act
(b) Imbargo Act of 1939
(c) Manchurian Act of 1937
(d) Export Safety Act

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which conflict in the Pacific was decisive victory for the Americans and turned the tide of battle between Japan and the United States?

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

4. The Royal Dutch company joined forces with what other oil company in 1907?

5. Germans pioneered the extraction of what from coal before World War I?

(see the answer key)

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