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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What document came out of the meeting, which encouraged cooperation by the oil companies?
(a) Oil Agreement Pact
(b) As-Is
(c) SC-RC
(d) Petroleum Edict (PET)

4. By 1915, APOC was supplying how much of the British Navy's oil needs?
(a) 20%
(b) 75%
(c) 90%
(d) 50%

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) South African
(d) Persian

6. Which German commander was stopped due to a lack of petrol in North Africa?
(a) Adolf Hitler
(b) Friedrich Bergius
(c) Joseph Stalin
(d) Erwin Rommel

7. The "Neutral Zone" was between Saudi Arabia and which other country?
(a) Iraq
(b) Egypt
(c) Syria
(d) Kuwait

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

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

10. Japan believed that what was the biggest liability for Germans in WWI, leading to their defeat?
(a) Money
(b) Cultural beliefs
(c) Tanks
(d) Petroleum

11. RDSG geologists put which country atop the list of potential oil finds?
(a) Guam
(b) Japan
(c) Venezuela
(d) France

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

13. 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

14. In 1944, the Allies targeted what with bombings in Germany?
(a) Concentration camps
(b) Synthetic fuel plants
(c) Tank factories
(d) German submarines

15. What did England sign in 1907 to foil German penetration into the Middle East?
(a) English-Saudi Agreement
(b) England-Persia Agreement
(c) Anglo-Russian Convention
(d) London-Turkey Treaty

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In 1901, the Shah gave D'Arcy access to how much of the country?

3. The Royal Dutch Company set up operations where?

4. What material was rationed in the U.S. during the war?

5. Who was the first country to begin using the practice of "rents?"

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