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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 Royal Dutch Company set up operations where?
(a) Brazil
(b) Canada
(c) Russia
(d) Sumatra
2. The "horseless carriage" was developed by whom?
(a) Orville Wright
(b) Henry Ford
(c) Thomas Edison
(d) Alexander Graham Bell
3. Britain wanted to keep whose oil out of the hands of the Russians and French in the early 1900s?
(a) South African
(b) Canadian
(c) Persian
(d) Sumatran
4. "Dad" Joiner found oil in a Texas field that came to be known as what?
(a) The Oil Gusher
(b) The Black Giant
(c) The Cash Creator
(d) The Liquid Bank
5. Which country did the United States begin transshipping to in 1940?
(a) Poland
(b) England
(c) Russia
(d) Israel
Short Answer Questions
1. What "taboo" did Venezuela break in the 1940s?
2. What was banned in 1943 in the U.S.?
3. Early in 1942, Hitler developed which plan, aimed at the Caucasus and beyond, to the oil fields of Iran and Iraq, and onward to India?
4. What method of delivery for oil did the oil companies settle on to avoid teamster conflicts?
5. Who volunteered to lead a cross-country motor caravan to demonstrate the value of motor transportation and to dramatize the need for better highways?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What plans did Adolf Hitler have that depended on oil? What helped him in his projects to get away from Western oil?
3. How did the automobile transform American society?
4. How did Britain become involved in developing D'Arcy's oil fields in the Middle East? What were the reasons for Britain's interest?
5. What are the war years called? Why are they called this?
6. Who was Ibn Saud? Why did he become involved in the oil industry?
7. What was the meeting at Achnacarry Castle about? Who was involved? What was the outcome?
8. Who was "Dad" Joiner? What did he discover?
9. Describe the beginning of the oil industry in Mexico. Why did Mexico cease to be a large oil producer?
10. Describe the exploration for oil that took place as Pennsylvania became depleted? Where was oil found?
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