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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5, Chapter 36.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who took over leadership in Libya?
(a) Abdullah Tariki
(b) Muammar al-Qaddafi
(c) Armand Hammer
(d) David Barran

2. Who masterminded strikes against the Rothschilds' interests in Russia?
(a) Immanuel Nobel
(b) Marcus Samuel
(c) John D. Rockefeller
(d) Joseph Stalin

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

4. Who did FDR appoint to head the Department of the Interior, in addition to the newly created positions of Oil Administrator and Public Works Administrator?
(a) Harold Ickes
(b) Thomas Stirling
(c) Adam Joiner
(d) August Hogg

5. Which oil company was among those who called for the U.S. to change its policy on Israel?
(a) Shell
(b) BP
(c) Texaco
(d) Mobile

Short Answer Questions

1. The global battle of oil production intensified what rivalry?

2. Who conducted a new series of investigations into the oil companies' activities?

3. Early in 1942, Hitler developed which plan, aimed at the Caucasus and beyond, to the oil fields of Iran and Iraq, and onward to India?

4. The deals between countries and oil companies for royalties and other fees were referred to as what?

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

(see the answer key)

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