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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who struck a deal with Saudi Arabia for $9.5 million up front; $1 million a year, whether or not oil was pumped; and a royalty of $0.55 per barrel?
(a) Juan Pérez Alfonso
(b) David Ricardo
(c) J. Paul Getty
(d) David McNaughton

2. What did Germany use to try to disrupt the shipping of oil in the Atlantic?
(a) U-boats
(b) Negotiations with Mexico
(c) Scud missiles
(d) Atomic bombs

3. Who published a book on the history of Standard Oil Company?
(a) Anna Burton
(b) Grace von Darnell
(c) Sarah Roosevelt
(d) Ida Tarbell

4. In 1901, the Shah gave D'Arcy access to how much of the country?
(a) 35%
(b) 15%
(c) 75%
(d) 95%

5. Britain wanted to keep whose oil out of the hands of the Russians and French in the early 1900s?
(a) Sumatran
(b) Canadian
(c) Persian
(d) South African

6. The U.S. established what to contain the Soviets and deal with British financial issues after WWII?
(a) The Wilson Doctrine
(b) The Roosevelt Doctrine
(c) The Churchill Pact
(d) The Marshall Plan

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

8. J. N. Pews in 1876 pioneered the use of natural gas to light which city?
(a) Boston
(b) New York
(c) Albany
(d) Pittsburgh

9. What lead to instigating gasoline rationing in England?
(a) Taxi cabs
(b) German control of Persia
(c) German U-boats use of oil
(d) A broken pipeline

10. What remained important in finding oil in the 1920s?
(a) Aerial pictures
(b) Geological studies
(c) Luck
(d) Communication

11. Who took over leadership of Standard from Rockefeller?
(a) John D. Archibold
(b) Immanuel Nobel
(c) Daniel Rockefeller
(d) John Mellon

12. What company did John D. Rockefeller and Henry Flagler start?
(a) Irving Oil Company
(b) Citgo, Inc.
(c) Exxon Mobil, Inc.
(d) Standard Oil Company

13. Which state was proclaimed in the Middle East that led to increasing tensions and conflicts in the region?
(a) Syria
(b) Iraq
(c) Israel
(d) Kuwait

14. Who favored favored domestic spending over war preparations against Germany in 1911?
(a) Nicholas II
(b) Nelson Mandela
(c) Woodrow Wilson
(d) Winston Churchill

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What event in the 1920s plunged oil into dire straits?

2. Which of the following was a parent company of Casoc?

3. In August 1928, Deterding met where with Heinrich Riedemann of Jersey Standard-Germany, Cadman of APOC, William Mellon of Gulf, Robert Stewart of Indiana and others to discuss the oil industry?

4. The "Neutral Zone" was between Saudi Arabia and which other country?

5. What "taboo" did Venezuela break in the 1940s?

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