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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, Chapter 27.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the most competitive market in the world in the 1950s-60s?
(a) South America
(b) Asia
(c) Africa
(d) Europe

2. For producing nations, oil was a source of what?
(a) Serenity
(b) Inequality
(c) Hardship
(d) Pride

3. U.S. oil production rose how much between 1940 and 1945?
(a) 58%
(b) 90%
(c) 4%
(d) 30%

4. Who became Britain's chief oil supplier just before WWI?
(a) APOC
(b) Royal Dutch
(c) Shell
(d) Exxon

5. Which conflict in the Pacific was decisive victory for the Americans and turned the tide of battle between Japan and the United States?
(a) The Battle of Ormac Bay
(b) The Battle of Midway
(c) Pearl Harbor
(d) The Battle of Kula Gulf

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Japan believed that what was the biggest liability for Germans in WWI, leading to their defeat?

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

4. What method of delivery for oil did the oil companies settle on to avoid teamster conflicts?

5. In 1962, what television show became a hit, celebrating the "black gold" that had transformed the face of America?

(see the answer key)

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