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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. What denied foreign interests access to drilling rights on public lands if their governments denied similar access to Americans?
(a) Mineral Leasing Act of 1920
(b) Oil Dependency Act of 1923
(c) Foreign Oil Act of 1919
(d) Oil Drilling Act of 1922

2. Which state was proclaimed in the Middle East that led to increasing tensions and conflicts in the region?
(a) Kuwait
(b) Iraq
(c) Syria
(d) Israel

3. Japan invaded which country in 1931?
(a) India
(b) Russia
(c) Korea
(d) China

4. Oil industry lore calls the war years what?
(a) The Stand in Arabia
(b) The Saudi Alamo
(c) Time of the Hundred Men
(d) Germany's Fury

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was key to Hitler's aggression toward Russia?

2. What lead to instigating gasoline rationing in England?

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

4. Oil prices dropped after what event?

5. Who favored favored domestic spending over war preparations against Germany in 1911?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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?

7. 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?

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

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

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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