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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5, Chapter 31.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What product grew rapidly after its first delivery to England in 1861?
(a) Vasoline
(b) Naphtha
(c) Gasoline
(d) Kerosene

2. In 1960 Jersey cut prices by what percent, with competitors following suit, with little enthusiasm but considerable alarm?
(a) 1 percent
(b) 7 percent
(c) 40 percent
(d) 33 percent

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

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

5. The "Arab oil embargo" consisted of what?
(a) The total ban on the export of oil to the U.S. and the Netherlands
(b) The ban on the import of oil to Arab countries
(c) Arab companies seizing control of foreign oil fields in Arab countries
(d) Western countries boycotting Arab oil

Short Answer Questions

1. What cut the travel time between England and India in half?

2. OPEC lifted the embargo in what year?

3. For producing nations, oil was a source of what?

4. What was Abdullah Tariki's nickname?

5. Nixon imposed what in 1971 to fight inflation?

(see the answer key)

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