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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, Chapter 24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Outside the U.S., oil exploration in the Western Hemisphere centered where?
(a) Panama
(b) Mexico
(c) Brazil
(d) Chile

2. In 1947, the Interior Department started a program to stockpile how many barrels of oil each day?
(a) Six hundred
(b) Eight hundred thousand
(c) Two million
(d) Four thousand

3. In 1901, the Shah gave D'Arcy access to how much of the country?
(a) 95%
(b) 35%
(c) 75%
(d) 15%

4. In 1944, the Allies targeted what with bombings in Germany?
(a) German submarines
(b) Concentration camps
(c) Tank factories
(d) Synthetic fuel plants

5. What cut the travel time between England and India in half?
(a) The Suez Canal
(b) The Sioux Canal
(c) The Indian Canal
(d) The Panama Canal

Short Answer Questions

1. Britain and France joined with what country to plan an attack on Egypt?

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

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. RDSG geologists put which country atop the list of potential oil finds?

5. Who used radio to mobilize Arab nationalism and stir up the whole Third World?

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