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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who stepped in to restore order as majors and independents feuded in the United States?
(a) California Oil Association (COA)
(b) North American Oil Commission (NAOC)
(c) United States Automobile Association (USAA)
(d) Texas Railroad Commission (TRC)

3. Shell employees at Balikapan in Borneo reacted to Pearl Harbor how?
(a) They stopped production, sabotaged wells, and set wharves ablaze.
(b) They stepped up production and prepared to expand the operation.
(c) They increased production, drilled new wells, and exported oil to the U.S.
(d) They slowed production, hid oil supplies, and built bunkers for themselves.

4. Oil industry lore calls the war years what?
(a) The Saudi Alamo
(b) Germany's Fury
(c) Time of the Hundred Men
(d) The Stand in Arabia

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

6. Japan's original war plan was that how much oil would be sufficient for victory?
(a) 1 month's worth
(b) 2 years' worth
(c) 9 week's worth
(d) 5 years' worth

7. Stalin wanted oil from which country to supplement Soviet production?
(a) Iran
(b) India
(c) Kuwait
(d) Saudi Arabia

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

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

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

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

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

13. What overcame Ibn Saud's reticence to allow infidel money into his kingdom?
(a) His desire to expand into Egypt
(b) Financial problems
(c) Security worries
(d) Churchill's influence

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

15. Who volunteered to lead a cross-country motor caravan to demonstrate the value of motor transportation and to dramatize the need for better highways?
(a) Theodore Roosevelt
(b) Calvin Coolidge
(c) Albert B. Fall
(d) Dwight D. Eisenhower

Short Answer Questions

1. Which country did the United States begin transshipping to in 1940?

2. In the early 1930s, the United States provided how much of Japan's oil imports?

3. What did England sign in 1907 to foil German penetration into the Middle East?

4. On April 5, 1945, who prepared to advance on Japan?

5. Who masterminded strikes against the Rothschilds' interests in Russia?

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