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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5, Chapter 32.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the pipeline that stretched from Texas to the East Coast?
(a) Big Inch
(b) The Dog Collar
(c) The Alamo Bootstrap
(d) Little Pip

2. What lead to instigating gasoline rationing in England?
(a) A broken pipeline
(b) German control of Persia
(c) German U-boats use of oil
(d) Taxi cabs

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

4. Which act gave FDR power to control exports, including oil?
(a) National Defense Act
(b) Export Safety Act
(c) Imbargo Act of 1939
(d) Manchurian Act of 1937

5. What was banned in 1943 in the U.S.?
(a) Shipping via train
(b) Having more than one private vehicle
(c) Nonessential driving
(d) Taxi cabs

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In 1947, the Interior Department started a program to stockpile how many barrels of oil each day?

3. Who conducted a new series of investigations into the oil companies' activities?

4. Venezuela nationalized oil production in what year?

5. What "taboo" did Venezuela break in the 1940s?

(see the answer key)

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