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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author, what kind of human building pattern will end when oil disappears?
(a) Wildfire interface zone building.
(b) Building in remote and pristine areas of the world.
(c) Urban sprawl.
(d) Suburbia.

2. Water produced by oil drilling is approximately how much larger than the amount of oil produced?
(a) Five times.
(b) Three times.
(c) Four times.
(d) Six times.

3. The information contained in the SPE papers confirms the uncertainty of Saudi Arabia's what?
(a) Future oil finds.
(b) Current oil production.
(c) Efforts to find oil.
(d) Estimated oil reserves.

4. When free-flowing oil in Saudi Arabia ends, what is the only alternative to find oil?
(a) Cleanup efforts.
(b) Secondary recovery efforts.
(c) Shale and surface drilling.
(d) Rehabilitation efforts.

5. Some people believe that Saudi Arabia's interest in Shaybah is not desperation, but what?
(a) Security motivated.
(b) Politically motivated.
(c) Technologically feasible.
(d) Common sense.

Short Answer Questions

1. What evidence is there to support Saudi Arabia's claim that there is enough oil in their fields to last forever?

2. How long did it take Saudi Arabia to increase production from three million barrels a day to eight million barrels a day?

3. How many "huge reserves" are there in Saudi Arabia?

4. What kind of logic describes the black and white area of interpretation?

5. The neutral zone oil is shared between Saudi Arabia and what country?

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