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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5, Chapter 30.

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. Which country was not represented at the meeting?
(a) England
(b) The United States
(c) Russia
(d) Germany

3. In October 1940, who bombed Dhahran?
(a) Russia
(b) Britain
(c) Japan
(d) Italy

4. In August 1928, Deterding met where with Heinrich Riedemann of Jersey Standard-Germany, Cadman of APOC, William Mellon of Gulf, Robert Stewart of Indiana and others to discuss the oil industry?
(a) Scotland
(b) Nepal
(c) Moscow
(d) Paris

5. Who subdued much of Arabia and negotiated the exchange of oil for money for his country?
(a) Ibn Saud
(b) Harry St. John Bridger
(c) Chaim Weizmann
(d) Rub al-Khali

Short Answer Questions

1. Who set up the Eastern and General Syndicate to develop business opportunities in the Middle East?

2. The "Neutral Zone" was between Saudi Arabia and which other country?

3. Who called for a "new concept" that would base the price of oil on the cost of alternative energy sources?

4. Who was the first country to begin using the practice of "rents?"

5. During the "Arab oil embargo" gas princes rose how much in the United States?

(see the answer key)

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