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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who subdued much of Arabia and negotiated the exchange of oil for money for his country?
(a) Ibn Saud
(b) Chaim Weizmann
(c) Harry St. John Bridger
(d) Rub al-Khali

2. Who instituted a vast building project in the British Navy to transform the fleet to use oil?
(a) Daniel D'Arcy
(b) Winston Churchill
(c) Kaiser Wilhelm
(d) Woodrow Wilson

3. Who stepped in to restore order as majors and independents feuded in the United States?
(a) California Oil Association (COA)
(b) United States Automobile Association (USAA)
(c) North American Oil Commission (NAOC)
(d) Texas Railroad Commission (TRC)

4. By 1950, what was the primary fuel source in America?
(a) Synthetic fuel
(b) Oil
(c) Electricity
(d) Coal

5. Britain wanted to keep whose oil out of the hands of the Russians and French in the early 1900s?
(a) Sumatran
(b) Persian
(c) South African
(d) Canadian

Short Answer Questions

1. Which country did the United States begin transshipping to in 1940?

2. By late 1944, 120,000 barrels of aviation gasoline were delivered daily to where?

3. What did Germany use to try to disrupt the shipping of oil in the Atlantic?

4. Outside the U.S., oil exploration in the Western Hemisphere centered where?

5. Which state was proclaimed in the Middle East that led to increasing tensions and conflicts in the region?

Short Essay Questions

1. Into what areas did Standard Oil expand? What was its place in oil production?

2. What are rents? How does this apply to oil?

3. How did WWI affect the oil industry and consumption of oil?

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

5. Describe the exploration for oil that took place as Pennsylvania became depleted? Where was oil found?

6. How was Standard Oil formed? Who was involved in this venture?

7. What tensions existed between the United States and Britain after the war? Why?

8. Who bid successfully on the Kuwait Neutral Zone concession? Why did he bid on the concession? What deal was struck?

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

10. What occurred in the oil industry after WWI in the United States? What was the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920?

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