View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which Swedish inventor established a considerable industrial company in Russia?
(a) Auguste Comte
(b) Nils von Dardel
(c) Nicklas Lidstrom
(d) Immanuel Nobel

2. Who perfected the incandescent light bulb?
(a) Alexander Graham Bell
(b) Thomas Edison
(c) Benjamin Franklin
(d) Guglielmo Marconi

3. Oil industry lore calls the war years what?
(a) The Stand in Arabia
(b) Time of the Hundred Men
(c) The Saudi Alamo
(d) Germany's Fury

4. By 1915, APOC was supplying how much of the British Navy's oil needs?
(a) 50%
(b) 20%
(c) 75%
(d) 90%

5. The Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939 did what?
(a) Resumed Russian oil shipments to Germany
(b) Gave Poland to Russia
(c) Created an alliance aganist Britain
(d) Ended the Prussian War

Short Answer Questions

1. Japan invaded which country in 1931?

2. What was banned in 1943 in the U.S.?

3. In 1944, the Allies targeted what with bombings in Germany?

4. What agreement signed in 1944, assured "equity" to all parties, including the oil producing countries?

5. What company did John D. Rockefeller and Henry Flagler start?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was known about oil before the mid-nineteenth century? Why wasn't it used more?

2. How did the Shell employees in Borneo react to news of Pearl Harbor? Why did they react this way?

3. How did the automobile transform American society?

4. What was part of Hitler's motivation to invade Russia? Why? Was he successful?

5. What was one of most extraordinary engineering feats of WWII? Why was this done?

6. Describe the beginning of the oil industry in Mexico. Why did Mexico cease to be a large oil producer?

7. What was the meeting at Achnacarry Castle about? Who was involved? What was the outcome?

8. What are the war years called? Why are they called this?

9. What did Germany use to try to disrupt oil distribution? What effect did this have?

10. What was the Japanese war plan based on? Did these premises come true?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 820 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample