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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who struck a deal with Saudi Arabia for $9.5 million up front; $1 million a year, whether or not oil was pumped; and a royalty of $0.55 per barrel?
(a) David Ricardo
(b) Juan Pérez Alfonso
(c) David McNaughton
(d) J. Paul Getty

2. Which country did the United States begin transshipping to in 1940?
(a) Israel
(b) Russia
(c) Poland
(d) England

3. 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) Albert B. Fall
(c) Calvin Coolidge
(d) Dwight D. Eisenhower

4. In the early 1930s, the United States provided how much of Japan's oil imports?
(a) 90%
(b) 16%
(c) 57%
(d) 40%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. What did Germany use to try to disrupt the shipping of oil in the Atlantic?
(a) Scud missiles
(b) U-boats
(c) Negotiations with Mexico
(d) Atomic bombs

Short Answer Questions

1. The Rothschilds created what company in 1902?

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

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

4. In August 1928, Deterding met where with Heinrich Riedemann of Jersey Standard-Germany, Cadman of APOC, William Mellon of Gulf, Robert Stewart of Indiana and others to discuss the oil industry?

5. The U.S. established what to contain the Soviets and deal with British financial issues after WWII?

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