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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who feared the demise of OPEC?
(a) Ronald Reagan
(b) Alirio Parra
(c) Margaret Thatcher
(d) Jimmy Carter

2. Who was assigned the task of a national energy policy?
(a) Grant Wilson
(b) James Schlesinger
(c) John Rockefeller
(d) Henry Jackson

3. Which country wanted OPEC to restore quotas at a lower level?
(a) Canada
(b) Indonesia
(c) Algeria
(d) China

4. Who prophesied that Middle Eastern governments would some day threaten the oil-dependent West?
(a) Dean Acheson
(b) Theodore Roosevelt
(c) Loy Henderson
(d) Ali Razmara

5. What was one of OPEC's goals when it was founded?
(a) To keep Western nations out of Arabia
(b) To restore the price of oil to its precut level
(c) To sell oil as cheaply as possible
(d) To take over the world's oil production

6. What was the main determinant of energy and oil consumption?
(a) Availability
(b) Resources
(c) Distribution
(d) Income

7. How much was the Trans-Alaskan Pipeline to cost?
(a) 45 million
(b) 2 billion
(c) 10 billion
(d) 250 million

8. What was a military action to capture Abadan that the British considered?
(a) Plan Y
(b) Plan Arabia
(c) Plan Oil
(d) Plan Fraser

9. During the "Arab oil embargo" gas princes rose how much in the United States?
(a) 76 percent
(b) 3 percent
(c) 40 percent
(d) 12 percent

10. Britain and France joined with what country to plan an attack on Egypt?
(a) Germany
(b) Japan
(c) Israel
(d) The United States

11. Which country set production to achieve price objectives?
(a) Iraq
(b) Kuwait
(c) Saudi Arabia
(d) Iran

12. The US sold arms to which country in an effort to win freedom for American hostages in Lebanon?
(a) Nepal
(b) India
(c) Israel
(d) Iran

13. What cut the travel time between England and India in half?
(a) The Suez Canal
(b) The Sioux Canal
(c) The Panama Canal
(d) The Indian Canal

14. The "Arab oil embargo" consisted of what?
(a) Arab companies seizing control of foreign oil fields in Arab countries
(b) Western countries boycotting Arab oil
(c) The ban on the import of oil to Arab countries
(d) The total ban on the export of oil to the U.S. and the Netherlands

15. Iraq embargoed oil to which country in response to the events at Camp David?
(a) India
(b) Russia
(c) Egypt
(d) Australia

Short Answer Questions

1. The grounding of the Exxon Valdez in Prince William Sound happened in what year?

2. How much of the world's reserves were in the Persian Gulf in 1990?

3. Which country did not have a quota?

4. In 1972, The Limits to Growth predicted that within 100 years what would happen?

5. Who partnered to form the Zapata company?

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