The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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) Texas Railroad Commission (TRC)
(d) United States Automobile Association (USAA)

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

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

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

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

8. Who was the first country to begin using the practice of "rents?"
(a) Venezuela
(b) Mexico
(c) Indonesia
(d) Iran

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

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

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

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

13. The deals between countries and oil companies for royalties and other fees were referred to as what?
(a) Sixty/Forty Deals
(b) Ten/Ninety Deals
(c) Fifty/Fifty Deals
(d) Twenty/Eighty Deals

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

15. Who launched an investigation into Standard Oil?
(a) Mark Twain
(b) Theodore Roosevelt
(c) Woodrow Wilson
(d) H. H. Rogers

Short Answer Questions

1. Who published a book on the history of Standard Oil Company?

2. J. N. Pews in 1876 pioneered the use of natural gas to light which city?

3. A Bolshevik newspaper spoke of oil as what?

4. Which other country provided oil for Japan in the early 1930s?

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

(see the answer keys)

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