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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 denied foreign interests access to drilling rights on public lands if their governments denied similar access to Americans?
(a) Oil Drilling Act of 1922
(b) Oil Dependency Act of 1923
(c) Foreign Oil Act of 1919
(d) Mineral Leasing Act of 1920

2. Who set up the Eastern and General Syndicate to develop business opportunities in the Middle East?
(a) Winston Churchill
(b) Robert Nelson
(c) Frank Holmes
(d) Thomas Neville

3. Who volunteered to lead a cross-country motor caravan to demonstrate the value of motor transportation and to dramatize the need for better highways?
(a) Albert B. Fall
(b) Calvin Coolidge
(c) Theodore Roosevelt
(d) Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

5. In December 1941, Japan bombed what target in the U.S.?
(a) San Diego Bay
(b) Pearl Harbor
(c) Seattle
(d) Channel Islands

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the greatest "if" in the Middle East after WWII?

2. Who bought out Maurice Clark for $72,000?

3. What document came out of the meeting, which encouraged cooperation by the oil companies?

4. Oil prices dropped after what event?

5. Who was the first country to begin using the practice of "rents?"

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