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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. In 1947, the Interior Department started a program to stockpile how many barrels of oil each day?
(a) Eight hundred thousand
(b) Two million
(c) Six hundred
(d) Four thousand

2. Which other country provided oil for Japan in the early 1930s?
(a) South Africa
(b) Dutch East Indies
(c) Britain
(d) Mexico

3. Where was a vast gas field found?
(a) Detroit, US
(b) Bath, England
(c) Lima, Peru
(d) Groningen, Holland

4. OPEC lifted the embargo in what year?
(a) 1974
(b) 1998
(c) 1983
(d) 1952

5. What was a military action to capture Abadan that the British considered?
(a) Plan Oil
(b) Plan Fraser
(c) Plan Arabia
(d) Plan Y

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The prices of oil did what between 1970 and 1973?

3. Japan invaded which country in 1931?

4. What weakened OPEC's position?

5. Who toured the Middle East and believed it to be "the greatest prize in history" because of its oil?

(see the answer key)

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