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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. What was the name of the pipeline that stretched from Texas to the East Coast?
(a) The Alamo Bootstrap
(b) Big Inch
(c) The Dog Collar
(d) Little Pip

2. "Colonel" Edwin Drake applied the salt drilling techniques of what country to oil?
(a) China
(b) Australia
(c) Iran
(d) Kenya

3. Between 1911 and 1918, oil consumption rose how much in the United States?
(a) 30%
(b) 90%
(c) 55%
(d) 5%

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

5. 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?
(a) Nepal
(b) Moscow
(c) Scotland
(d) Paris

Short Answer Questions

1. Outside the U.S., oil exploration in the Western Hemisphere centered where?

2. Japan invaded which country in 1931?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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