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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. Shell employees at Balikapan in Borneo reacted to Pearl Harbor how?
(a) They stepped up production and prepared to expand the operation.
(b) They stopped production, sabotaged wells, and set wharves ablaze.
(c) They slowed production, hid oil supplies, and built bunkers for themselves.
(d) They increased production, drilled new wells, and exported oil to the U.S.

2. In December 1941, Japan bombed what target in the U.S.?
(a) Pearl Harbor
(b) San Diego Bay
(c) Seattle
(d) Channel Islands

3. Germans pioneered the extraction of what from coal before World War I?
(a) Synthetic fuels
(b) Oil
(c) Petroleum
(d) Nitrogen

4. Who instituted a vast building project in the British Navy to transform the fleet to use oil?
(a) Daniel D'Arcy
(b) Winston Churchill
(c) Woodrow Wilson
(d) Kaiser Wilhelm

5. What method of delivery for oil did the oil companies settle on to avoid teamster conflicts?
(a) Pipelines
(b) Boats
(c) Trains
(d) Tanker trucks

Short Answer Questions

1. Who launched an investigation into Standard Oil?

2. In the early 1930s, the United States provided how much of Japan's oil imports?

3. What lead to instigating gasoline rationing in England?

4. Who favored favored domestic spending over war preparations against Germany in 1911?

5. The Royal Dutch Company set up operations where?

(see the answer key)

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