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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What event in the 1920s plunged oil into dire straits?
(a) World War I
(b) The Tulsa Race Riot
(c) The Great Depression
(d) Prohibition

2. 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) Albert B. Fall
(b) Theodore Roosevelt
(c) Calvin Coolidge
(d) Dwight D. Eisenhower

3. Who became Britain's chief oil supplier just before WWI?
(a) Royal Dutch
(b) APOC
(c) Shell
(d) Exxon

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

5. A Bolshevik newspaper spoke of oil as what?
(a) Oily Funds
(b) Black Money
(c) Quick Cash
(d) Liquid Gold

6. How long did it take Japan to seize control of the oil in the East Indies?
(a) 1 year
(b) 4 weeks
(c) 3 months
(d) 5 days

7. What was the name of the pipeline that stretched from Texas to the East Coast?
(a) Little Pip
(b) Big Inch
(c) The Alamo Bootstrap
(d) The Dog Collar

8. 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

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

10. Germans pioneered the extraction of what from coal before World War I?
(a) Petroleum
(b) Oil
(c) Nitrogen
(d) Synthetic fuels

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

12. What sprung up to process crude oil into kerosene?
(a) Labratories
(b) Factories
(c) Quarries
(d) Refineries

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

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

15. Who perfected the incandescent light bulb?
(a) Guglielmo Marconi
(b) Benjamin Franklin
(c) Thomas Edison
(d) Alexander Graham Bell

Short Answer Questions

1. By 1879, Standard controlled what percentage of U.S. refining capacity, as well as the pipelines, gathering systems, and transportation?

2. U.S. oil production rose how much between 1940 and 1945?

3. Early in 1942, Hitler developed which plan, aimed at the Caucasus and beyond, to the oil fields of Iran and Iraq, and onward to India?

4. Which German commander was stopped due to a lack of petrol in North Africa?

5. Shell employees at Balikapan in Borneo reacted to Pearl Harbor how?

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