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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. The Rothschilds created what company in 1902?
(a) Asiatic Petroleum Company
(b) Standard Oil Company
(c) Shell Oil Company
(d) Royal Dutch Company

2. Who volunteered to lead a cross-country motor caravan to demonstrate the value of motor transportation and to dramatize the need for better highways?
(a) Albert B. Fall
(b) Dwight D. Eisenhower
(c) Calvin Coolidge
(d) Theodore Roosevelt

3. 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) Harold Ickes
(b) Adam Joiner
(c) August Hogg
(d) Thomas Stirling

4. Germans pioneered the extraction of what from coal before World War I?
(a) Synthetic fuels
(b) Petroleum
(c) Nitrogen
(d) Oil

5. Who became Britain's chief oil supplier just before WWI?
(a) Royal Dutch
(b) Shell
(c) APOC
(d) Exxon

Short Answer Questions

1. For producing nations, oil was a source of what?

2. What did England sign in 1907 to foil German penetration into the Middle East?

3. Who set up the Eastern and General Syndicate to develop business opportunities in the Middle East?

4. Who did FDR meet with at the Suez Canal Zone after Yalta?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How did the oil companies become involved in the Middle East? Who was involved in the beginning negotiations?

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

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

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

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

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