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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 subdued much of Arabia and negotiated the exchange of oil for money for his country?
(a) Chaim Weizmann
(b) Ibn Saud
(c) Rub al-Khali
(d) Harry St. John Bridger

2. Who become the symbol of the new age of oil?
(a) "Sheikh" Ahmed Zaki Yamani
(b) The Shah of Iran
(c) Jimmy Carter
(d) Crown Prince Fahd

3. What agreement signed in 1944, assured "equity" to all parties, including the oil producing countries?
(a) Saudi-American Oil Pact
(b) Anglo-American Petroleum Agreement
(c) Kuwait-Saudi Agreement
(d) Saudi-English Oil Pact

4. Which country did not have a quota?
(a) Iran
(b) Kuwait
(c) China
(d) Saudi Arabia

5. What was the name of the pipeline that stretched from Texas to the East Coast?
(a) The Alamo Bootstrap
(b) Little Pip
(c) Big Inch
(d) The Dog Collar

Short Answer Questions

1. The Royal Dutch Company set up operations where?

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

3. Who was named Saudi Arabia's Director of Oil and Mining Affairs?

4. Mohammed Reza Pahlavi was placed in control of what country?

5. What was key to Hitler's aggression toward Russia?

(see the answer key)

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