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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, Chapter 20.

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. Which of the following was a parent company of Casoc?
(a) Texaco
(b) BP
(c) Exxon
(d) Shell

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

4. In 1901, the Shah gave D'Arcy access to how much of the country?
(a) 75%
(b) 95%
(c) 35%
(d) 15%

5. What lead to instigating gasoline rationing in England?
(a) German U-boats use of oil
(b) A broken pipeline
(c) German control of Persia
(d) Taxi cabs

Short Answer Questions

1. In August 1928, Deterding met where with Heinrich Riedemann of Jersey Standard-Germany, Cadman of APOC, William Mellon of Gulf, Robert Stewart of Indiana and others to discuss the oil industry?

2. Who toured the Middle East and believed it to be "the greatest prize in history" because of its oil?

3. Britain wanted to keep whose oil out of the hands of the Russians and French in the early 1900s?

4. Who launched an investigation into Standard Oil?

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

(see the answer key)

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