The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power Test | Final Test - Easy

Daniel Yergin
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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Venezuela nationalized oil production in what year?
(a) 1961
(b) 1955
(c) 1988
(d) 1976

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

3. Who took over leadership in Libya?
(a) Armand Hammer
(b) David Barran
(c) Muammar al-Qaddafi
(d) Abdullah Tariki

4. What did 100,000 people celebrate in 1970 in the United States?
(a) The release of the film "Jaws"
(b) Christmas
(c) Earth Day
(d) The end of the Korean War

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

6. In 1979, Iran produced what percent of the world's oil?
(a) 15-17%
(b) 51-52%
(c) 33-35%
(d) 4-5%

7. In the late 1970s, oil buyers did what?
(a) Sold the oil at low prices
(b) Stopped buying
(c) Hoarded the oil they bought
(d) Demanded that less oil be produced so prices would increase

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

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

10. How much of the world's reserves were in the Persian Gulf in 1990?
(a) One half
(b) Ten percent
(c) One quarter
(d) Two-thirds

11. Which nuclear power plant malfunctioned just after the OPEC meeting?
(a) Three Mile Island
(b) Calder Hall
(c) Obninsk
(d) Ikata

12. The attempted coop in Iran was known as what?
(a) Operation Ajax
(b) Operation Blue
(c) Operation Frog
(d) Operation Arabia

13. Who succeeded Nasser in 1970?
(a) Leonid Brezhnev
(b) Hafez al-Assad
(c) Golda Meir
(d) Anwar Sadat

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

15. Who joined forces with Italian oil man Enrico Mattei?
(a) The Shah of Iran
(b) Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonso
(c) Abdullah Tariki
(d) President Betancourt

Short Answer Questions

1. During the "Arab oil embargo" gas princes rose how much in the United States?

2. Which country wanted to attended OPEC's 1986 meeting as an observer?

3. The economist E. F. Schumacher called for what?

4. The American hostages were held until what happened?

5. Which country wanted OPEC to restore quotas at a lower level?

(see the answer keys)

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