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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 "horseless carriage" was developed by whom?
(a) Orville Wright
(b) Henry Ford
(c) Alexander Graham Bell
(d) Thomas Edison
2. Britain wanted to keep whose oil out of the hands of the Russians and French in the early 1900s?
(a) South African
(b) Sumatran
(c) Canadian
(d) Persian
3. Which act gave FDR power to control exports, including oil?
(a) National Defense Act
(b) Manchurian Act of 1937
(c) Imbargo Act of 1939
(d) Export Safety Act
4. What sprung up to process crude oil into kerosene?
(a) Factories
(b) Refineries
(c) Quarries
(d) Labratories
5. What was banned in 1943 in the U.S.?
(a) Having more than one private vehicle
(b) Nonessential driving
(c) Taxi cabs
(d) Shipping via train
Short Answer Questions
1. In October 1940, who bombed Dhahran?
2. "Dad" Joiner found oil in a Texas field that came to be known as what?
3. Germans pioneered the extraction of what from coal before World War I?
4. What method of delivery for oil did the oil companies settle on to avoid teamster conflicts?
5. 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?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why didn't FDR do anything when Japan invaded China? What did he consider?
2. What invention threatened Standard's profits? What product did Standard begin focusing on? Was this strategy successful?
3. Describe the beginning of the oil industry in Mexico. Why did Mexico cease to be a large oil producer?
4. 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?
5. What was the Japanese war plan based on? Did these premises come true?
6. How did the Shell employees in Borneo react to news of Pearl Harbor? Why did they react this way?
7. What was known about oil before the mid-nineteenth century? Why wasn't it used more?
8. What was part of Hitler's motivation to invade Russia? Why? Was he successful?
9. Who found an economical way to get oil? Where did he get the information from? What happened after he discovered this?
10. What plans did Adolf Hitler have that depended on oil? What helped him in his projects to get away from Western oil?
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