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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. The global battle of oil production intensified what rivalry?
(a) Japan-Britain
(b) India-Kuwait
(c) Saudi-Iranian
(d) Britain-United States

2. What event in the 1920s plunged oil into dire straits?
(a) World War I
(b) Prohibition
(c) The Tulsa Race Riot
(d) The Great Depression

3. The "horseless carriage" was developed by whom?
(a) Alexander Graham Bell
(b) Orville Wright
(c) Thomas Edison
(d) Henry Ford

4. The deals between countries and oil companies for royalties and other fees were referred to as what?
(a) Sixty/Forty Deals
(b) Fifty/Fifty Deals
(c) Twenty/Eighty Deals
(d) Ten/Ninety Deals

5. "Dad" Joiner found oil in a Texas field that came to be known as what?
(a) The Liquid Bank
(b) The Black Giant
(c) The Cash Creator
(d) The Oil Gusher

Short Answer Questions

1. Mohammed Reza Pahlavi was placed in control of what country?

2. Who set up the Eastern and General Syndicate to develop business opportunities in the Middle East?

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

4. The U.S. established what to contain the Soviets and deal with British financial issues after WWII?

5. Shell employees at Balikapan in Borneo reacted to Pearl Harbor how?

(see the answer key)

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