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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) Marvin H. Davis
(b) Daniel Standard
(c) John D. Rockefeller
(d) Woodrow Wilson

2. Who published a book on the history of Standard Oil Company?
(a) Grace von Darnell
(b) Ida Tarbell
(c) Anna Burton
(d) Sarah Roosevelt

3. What denied foreign interests access to drilling rights on public lands if their governments denied similar access to Americans?
(a) Oil Dependency Act of 1923
(b) Oil Drilling Act of 1922
(c) Mineral Leasing Act of 1920
(d) Foreign Oil Act of 1919

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

5. By 1879, Standard controlled what percentage of U.S. refining capacity, as well as the pipelines, gathering systems, and transportation?
(a) 25%
(b) 50%
(c) 10%
(d) 90%

Short Answer Questions

1. What sprung up to process crude oil into kerosene?

2. In 1944, the Allies targeted what with bombings in Germany?

3. Which German commander was stopped due to a lack of petrol in North Africa?

4. The Rothschilds created what company in 1902?

5. Which other country provided oil for Japan in the early 1930s?

(see the answer key)

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