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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 joined forces with Italian oil man Enrico Mattei?
(a) President Betancourt
(b) The Shah of Iran
(c) Abdullah Tariki
(d) Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonso

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

3. The Rothschilds created what company in 1902?
(a) Standard Oil Company
(b) Royal Dutch Company
(c) Asiatic Petroleum Company
(d) Shell Oil Company

4. Who perfected the incandescent light bulb?
(a) Alexander Graham Bell
(b) Guglielmo Marconi
(c) Thomas Edison
(d) Benjamin Franklin

5. What weakened OPEC's position?
(a) The opening of new oil provinces
(b) The cost of oil
(c) The closing of the Suez Canal
(d) The Korean War

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did FDR meet with at the Suez Canal Zone after Yalta?

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

3. Who published a book on the history of Standard Oil Company?

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

5. Oil industry lore calls the war years what?

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