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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. By late 1944, 120,000 barrels of aviation gasoline were delivered daily to where?
(a) Guam
(b) Channel Islands
(c) Toyko
(d) Java

2. 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) Foreign Oil Act of 1919
(d) Mineral Leasing Act of 1920

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

4. What did Calouste Gulbenkian come to be known as after APOC and Shell gave him shares in their companies?
(a) Controlling Interest
(b) King of Persia
(c) Mr. Five Percent
(d) Oil Baron of Persia

5. What event in the 1920s plunged oil into dire straits?
(a) The Great Depression
(b) Prohibition
(c) World War I
(d) The Tulsa Race Riot

Short Answer Questions

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

2. A Bolshevik newspaper spoke of oil as what?

3. What remained important in finding oil in the 1920s?

4. Oil prices dropped after what event?

5. Who masterminded strikes against the Rothschilds' interests in Russia?

(see the answer key)

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