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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What years were OPEC's Golden Age?
(a) 1963-65
(b) 1974-78
(c) 1958-61
(d) 1981-88
2. The US sold arms to which country in an effort to win freedom for American hostages in Lebanon?
(a) India
(b) Nepal
(c) Iran
(d) Israel
3. Who delivered the first-ever presidential address on energy in the United States?
(a) Gerald Ford
(b) John F. Kennedy
(c) George Bush
(d) Richard Nixon
4. What was a military action to capture Abadan that the British considered?
(a) Plan Oil
(b) Plan Arabia
(c) Plan Fraser
(d) Plan Y
5. How many days were the hostages held?
(a) 444
(b) 62
(c) 109
(d) 3
6. After Iraq expelled Khomeini, where did he go?
(a) Moscow
(b) Dallas
(c) Cape Town
(d) Paris
7. Which country put an embargo on Iranian imports?
(a) Britain
(b) Mexico
(c) Japan
(d) Canada
8. The global battle of oil production intensified what rivalry?
(a) Britain-United States
(b) Japan-Britain
(c) India-Kuwait
(d) Saudi-Iranian
9. The American hostages were held until what happened?
(a) Moscow threatened Iran
(b) The US invaded Egypt
(c) The OPEC annual conference
(d) Carter left office
10. Which oil company was most dependent on Iran?
(a) BP
(b) Exxon
(c) Shell
(d) Texaco
11. Which country seized Jerusalem, the West Bank, and the Golan Heights?
(a) Israel
(b) Germany
(c) Russia
(d) Saudi Arabia
12. In 1979, Iran produced what percent of the world's oil?
(a) 33-35%
(b) 51-52%
(c) 4-5%
(d) 15-17%
13. Exxon spent a billion dollars on what in 1980?
(a) Shale oil development
(b) A lawsuit from Texaco
(c) Reassuring consumers with advertising
(d) A platform in the Bay of Fundy
14. The Soviet Union invaded which country?
(a) Poland
(b) India
(c) Afghanistan
(d) China
15. Who called for a "new concept" that would base the price of oil on the cost of alternative energy sources?
(a) The Shah
(b) Henry Kissinger
(c) William Simon
(d) Richard Nixon
Short Answer Questions
1. How much of the world's reserves were in the Persian Gulf in 1990?
2. Which country wanted to attended OPEC's 1986 meeting as an observer?
3. On August 2, 1990, 100,000 Iraqi troops invaded which country?
4. "Sheikh" Ahmed Zaki Yamani was whose protege?
5. The economist E. F. Schumacher called for what?
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