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

2. "Colonel" Edwin Drake applied the salt drilling techniques of what country to oil?
(a) Australia
(b) Kenya
(c) Iran
(d) China

3. What was the name of the pipeline that stretched from Texas to the East Coast?
(a) The Alamo Bootstrap
(b) Little Pip
(c) Big Inch
(d) The Dog Collar

4. In 1944, the Allies targeted what with bombings in Germany?
(a) Tank factories
(b) Synthetic fuel plants
(c) Concentration camps
(d) German submarines

5. In August 1928, Deterding met where with Heinrich Riedemann of Jersey Standard-Germany, Cadman of APOC, William Mellon of Gulf, Robert Stewart of Indiana and others to discuss the oil industry?
(a) Nepal
(b) Paris
(c) Moscow
(d) Scotland

Short Answer Questions

1. Britain wanted to keep whose oil out of the hands of the Russians and French in the early 1900s?

2. What method of delivery for oil did the oil companies settle on to avoid teamster conflicts?

3. Who bought out Maurice Clark for $72,000?

4. Japan invaded which country in 1931?

5. What "taboo" did Venezuela break in the 1940s?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was "Dad" Joiner? What did he discover?

2. Why didn't FDR do anything when Japan invaded China? What did he consider?

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

4. What plans did Adolf Hitler have that depended on oil? What helped him in his projects to get away from Western oil?

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

6. How did the automobile transform American society?

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

8. What happened to oil and gas consumption and demand in the United States after the war? What effects did this have?

9. What was Japan's interest in the East Indies? What plans were developed around the East Indies?

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

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