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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. Who took over leadership of Standard from Rockefeller?
(a) Immanuel Nobel
(b) John Mellon
(c) John D. Archibold
(d) Daniel Rockefeller

2. Who published a book on the history of Standard Oil Company?
(a) Anna Burton
(b) Sarah Roosevelt
(c) Ida Tarbell
(d) Grace von Darnell

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

4. What did Germany use to try to disrupt the shipping of oil in the Atlantic?
(a) Negotiations with Mexico
(b) Scud missiles
(c) Atomic bombs
(d) U-boats

5. What lead to instigating gasoline rationing in England?
(a) German control of Persia
(b) A broken pipeline
(c) Taxi cabs
(d) German U-boats use of oil

Short Answer Questions

1. Britain wanted to keep whose oil out of the hands of the Russians and French in the early 1900s?

2. Oil industry lore calls the war years what?

3. The Rothschilds created what company in 1902?

4. The economist E. F. Schumacher called for what?

5. The "Neutral Zone" was between Saudi Arabia and which other country?

(see the answer key)

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