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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was banned in 1943 in the U.S.?
(a) Shipping via train
(b) Taxi cabs
(c) Having more than one private vehicle
(d) Nonessential driving

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

3. The Royal Dutch Company set up operations where?
(a) Russia
(b) Sumatra
(c) Brazil
(d) Canada

4. How long did it take Japan to seize control of the oil in the East Indies?
(a) 5 days
(b) 3 months
(c) 1 year
(d) 4 weeks

5. Oil prices dropped after what event?
(a) The Vietnam War
(b) The Civil War
(c) 9/11
(d) World War I

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

7. Outside the U.S., oil exploration in the Western Hemisphere centered where?
(a) Brazil
(b) Panama
(c) Chile
(d) Mexico

8. A Bolshevik newspaper spoke of oil as what?
(a) Black Money
(b) Oily Funds
(c) Quick Cash
(d) Liquid Gold

9. What did Calouste Gulbenkian come to be known as after APOC and Shell gave him shares in their companies?
(a) Oil Baron of Persia
(b) Controlling Interest
(c) Mr. Five Percent
(d) King of Persia

10. 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) August Hogg
(b) Harold Ickes
(c) Thomas Stirling
(d) Adam Joiner

11. Which Swedish inventor established a considerable industrial company in Russia?
(a) Nicklas Lidstrom
(b) Immanuel Nobel
(c) Auguste Comte
(d) Nils von Dardel

12. On April 5, 1945, who prepared to advance on Japan?
(a) France
(b) Canada
(c) Australia
(d) The Soviet Union

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

14. Japan invaded which country in 1931?
(a) Russia
(b) China
(c) India
(d) Korea

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who took over leadership of Standard from Rockefeller?

2. What remained important in finding oil in the 1920s?

3. By 1879, Standard controlled what percentage of U.S. refining capacity, as well as the pipelines, gathering systems, and transportation?

4. Who instituted a vast building project in the British Navy to transform the fleet to use oil?

5. In October 1940, who bombed Dhahran?

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