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

2. Who launched an investigation into Standard Oil?
(a) Theodore Roosevelt
(b) Woodrow Wilson
(c) Mark Twain
(d) H. H. Rogers

3. In the early 1930s, the United States provided how much of Japan's oil imports?
(a) 40%
(b) 57%
(c) 16%
(d) 90%

4. On April 5, 1945, who prepared to advance on Japan?
(a) Canada
(b) The Soviet Union
(c) France
(d) Australia

5. In October 1940, who bombed Dhahran?
(a) Russia
(b) Japan
(c) Britain
(d) Italy

Short Answer Questions

1. What agreement signed in 1944, assured "equity" to all parties, including the oil producing countries?

2. What did England sign in 1907 to foil German penetration into the Middle East?

3. What was the name of the pipeline that stretched from Texas to the East Coast?

4. 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?

5. What product grew rapidly after its first delivery to England in 1861?

(see the answer key)

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