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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 did FDR appoint to head the Department of the Interior, in addition to the newly created positions of Oil Administrator and Public Works Administrator?
(a) Adam Joiner
(b) August Hogg
(c) Harold Ickes
(d) Thomas Stirling

2. Which conflict in the Pacific was decisive victory for the Americans and turned the tide of battle between Japan and the United States?
(a) The Battle of Midway
(b) Pearl Harbor
(c) The Battle of Kula Gulf
(d) The Battle of Ormac Bay

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

4. By late 1944, 120,000 barrels of aviation gasoline were delivered daily to where?
(a) Guam
(b) Channel Islands
(c) Java
(d) Toyko

5. What sprung up to process crude oil into kerosene?
(a) Refineries
(b) Labratories
(c) Factories
(d) Quarries

Short Answer Questions

1. Who instituted a vast building project in the British Navy to transform the fleet to use oil?

2. What remained important in finding oil in the 1920s?

3. The deals between countries and oil companies for royalties and other fees were referred to as what?

4. What event in the 1920s plunged oil into dire straits?

5. In the early 1930s, the United States provided how much of Japan's oil imports?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who found an economical way to get oil? Where did he get the information from? What happened after he discovered this?

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

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

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

5. In what parts of the world did oil drilling and production take place? Where were some of the challenges that oil companies faced in these regions and countries?

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

7. What event in 1947 in the Gulf of Mexico led to questions? What issues arose from this? What other products did the United States become interested in?

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

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

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

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