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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What was the greatest "if" in the Middle East after WWII?
(a) The technology for a transcontinent pipeline
(b) An uncertain future after Ibn Saud died
(c) The creation of a Jewish state
(d) The effects of a Russian invasion

7. The Royal Dutch Company set up operations where?
(a) Russia
(b) Canada
(c) Brazil
(d) Sumatra

8. 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?
(a) Operation Caucasus
(b) Operation Soviet
(c) Operation Bleu
(d) Operation Volkswagon

9. The U.S. established what to contain the Soviets and deal with British financial issues after WWII?
(a) The Churchill Pact
(b) The Marshall Plan
(c) The Wilson Doctrine
(d) The Roosevelt Doctrine

10. The "Neutral Zone" was between Saudi Arabia and which other country?
(a) Egypt
(b) Iraq
(c) Syria
(d) Kuwait

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

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

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

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

15. For producing nations, oil was a source of what?
(a) Serenity
(b) Hardship
(c) Pride
(d) Inequality

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tried to take over Britain's naval superiority in the 1890s, which instead strengthened Britain's resolve?

2. "Colonel" Edwin Drake applied the salt drilling techniques of what country to oil?

3. Who subdued much of Arabia and negotiated the exchange of oil for money for his country?

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

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

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