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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 project did Nixon introduce to make the US less oil dependent?
(a) Project Freedom
(b) Project Arabia
(c) Project Independence
(d) Project Eagle

2. Mohammed Reza Pahlavi was placed in control of what country?
(a) Saudi Arabia
(b) Iran
(c) Israel
(d) Syria

3. Who was named Saudi Arabia's Director of Oil and Mining Affairs?
(a) Abdullah Tariki
(b) Gamal Abedel Nasser
(c) President Betancourt
(d) Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonso

4. What accelerated the American escape to the suburbs?
(a) Airplanes
(b) Electricity
(c) Coal
(d) Cheap gas

5. Who undercut Middle Eastern oil?
(a) Chile
(b) The Soviet Union
(c) France
(d) The United States

Short Answer Questions

1. After Iraq expelled Khomeini, where did he go?

2. What was a military action to capture Abadan that the British considered?

3. The economist E. F. Schumacher called for what?

4. How did Eisenhower feel about the attack on Egypt?

5. Who joined forces with Italian oil man Enrico Mattei?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did world oil consumption grow so fast in the period between 1949 and 1972? Which countries or areas experienced this growth?

2. What effects did cheap gas have in the United States in the 1950s? Why were consumers able to obtain cheap gas during this time?

3. Why did Iraqi troops invade Kuwait? What was the result?

4. Why is 1974 to 1978 known as OPEC's Golden Age?

5. What changes occurred in Libya in the 1970s with regard to the oil industry?

6. What did Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson investigate? How did people respond to these investigations?

7. The book discusses some possible changes in the oil industry. What does the author argue is a possibility in the coming years in regards to the oil industry? What might change the face of the oil industry?

8. What is the Suez Canal? Why was it important for the oil industry?

9. Who was Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini? What impact did he have on the oil industry?

10. What factors weakened OPEC's position in the mid-1980s?

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