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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939 did what?
(a) Ended the Prussian War
(b) Created an alliance aganist Britain
(c) Resumed Russian oil shipments to Germany
(d) Gave Poland to Russia

2. Which of the following was a parent company of Casoc?
(a) Shell
(b) Texaco
(c) Exxon
(d) BP

3. The Royal Dutch company joined forces with what other oil company in 1907?
(a) BP
(b) Exxon
(c) Shell
(d) Standard

4. What "taboo" did Venezuela break in the 1940s?
(a) Breaking an oil agreement for a better deal
(b) Taking less than market value for its oil production
(c) Selling the royalty oil directly on the world market
(d) Allowing a foreign country to partner with domestic oil companies

5. Who bought out Maurice Clark for $72,000?
(a) Woodrow Wilson
(b) Marvin H. Davis
(c) John D. Rockefeller
(d) Daniel Standard

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

7. What method of delivery for oil did the oil companies settle on to avoid teamster conflicts?
(a) Tanker trucks
(b) Boats
(c) Pipelines
(d) Trains

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

9. Who did FDR meet with at the Suez Canal Zone after Yalta?
(a) David McNaughton
(b) Erwin Rommel
(c) Joseph Stalin
(d) Ibn Saud

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

11. In October 1940, who bombed Dhahran?
(a) Russia
(b) Italy
(c) Britain
(d) Japan

12. By late 1944, 120,000 barrels of aviation gasoline were delivered daily to where?
(a) Guam
(b) Java
(c) Channel Islands
(d) Toyko

13. The "horseless carriage" was developed by whom?
(a) Thomas Edison
(b) Alexander Graham Bell
(c) Orville Wright
(d) Henry Ford

14. Between 1911 and 1918, oil consumption rose how much in the United States?
(a) 90%
(b) 5%
(c) 55%
(d) 30%

15. What did Britain capture to secure the strategic approaches to oil and ensure the safety of the Amir of Kuwait?
(a) Jerusalem
(b) Beirut
(c) Tehran
(d) Basra

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What overcame Ibn Saud's reticence to allow infidel money into his kingdom?

4. What was the name of the pipeline that stretched from Texas to the East Coast?

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

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