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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who instituted a vast building project in the British Navy to transform the fleet to use oil?
(a) Daniel D'Arcy
(b) Woodrow Wilson
(c) Winston Churchill
(d) Kaiser Wilhelm

3. Who masterminded strikes against the Rothschilds' interests in Russia?
(a) John D. Rockefeller
(b) Marcus Samuel
(c) Joseph Stalin
(d) Immanuel Nobel

4. Britain wanted to keep whose oil out of the hands of the Russians and French in the early 1900s?
(a) Sumatran
(b) Canadian
(c) South African
(d) Persian

5. What company did John D. Rockefeller and Henry Flagler start?
(a) Irving Oil Company
(b) Citgo, Inc.
(c) Exxon Mobil, Inc.
(d) Standard Oil Company

Short Answer Questions

1. What did England sign in 1907 to foil German penetration into the Middle East?

2. In December 1941, Japan bombed what target in the U.S.?

3. Japan invaded which country in 1931?

4. Japan believed that what was the biggest liability for Germans in WWI, leading to their defeat?

5. "Dad" Joiner found oil in a Texas field that came to be known as what?

(see the answer key)

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