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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was put in charge of the Iranian National Oil Company?
(a) Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
(b) Mehdi Bazargan
(c) Sir William Fraser
(d) Ali Razmara

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

3. The American hostages were held until what happened?
(a) The US invaded Egypt
(b) The OPEC annual conference
(c) Carter left office
(d) Moscow threatened Iran

4. What years were OPEC's Golden Age?
(a) 1981-88
(b) 1963-65
(c) 1958-61
(d) 1974-78

5. The Soviet Union invaded which country?
(a) China
(b) Poland
(c) Afghanistan
(d) India

6. What was Abdullah Tariki's nickname?
(a) Oil King
(b) Shah of Petroleum
(c) Elephant
(d) Red Sheikh

7. After Iraq expelled Khomeini, where did he go?
(a) Paris
(b) Moscow
(c) Dallas
(d) Cape Town

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

9. In 1965, who won two-thirds of the exploration leases on the Prudhoe Bay structure?
(a) TIFF
(b) AARP
(c) CLBE
(d) ARCO

10. What is a giant oil field called?
(a) Big Dipper
(b) T-Rex
(c) Elephant
(d) Roman Empire

11. The global battle of oil production intensified what rivalry?
(a) India-Kuwait
(b) Saudi-Iranian
(c) Japan-Britain
(d) Britain-United States

12. How did Eisenhower feel about the attack on Egypt?
(a) Surprised and angry
(b) Indifferent
(c) Cautiously happy
(d) Resigned and depressed

13. The grounding of the Exxon Valdez in Prince William Sound happened in what year?
(a) 1989
(b) 1981
(c) 1973
(d) 1962

14. From 1985 to 1990, who was the world's largest purchaser of conventional arms?
(a) China
(b) The United States
(c) Russia
(d) Iraq

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who conducted a new series of investigations into the oil companies' activities?

2. What accelerated the American escape to the suburbs?

3. In 1986, how many oil ministers met in Saudi Arabia and agreed on $18 per barrel plus a new quota system?

4. Who delivered the first-ever presidential address on energy in the United States?

5. "Sheikh" Ahmed Zaki Yamani was whose protege?

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