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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 12 | Part 2, Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What event in the 1920s plunged oil into dire straits?
(a) The Great Depression
(b) The Tulsa Race Riot
(c) World War I
(d) Prohibition

2. What did Calouste Gulbenkian come to be known as after APOC and Shell gave him shares in their companies?
(a) Oil Baron of Persia
(b) King of Persia
(c) Controlling Interest
(d) Mr. Five Percent

3. Oil prices dropped after what event?
(a) 9/11
(b) The Civil War
(c) World War I
(d) The Vietnam War

4. Who perfected the incandescent light bulb?
(a) Benjamin Franklin
(b) Alexander Graham Bell
(c) Thomas Edison
(d) Guglielmo Marconi

5. Who published a book on the history of Standard Oil Company?
(a) Anna Burton
(b) Sarah Roosevelt
(c) Ida Tarbell
(d) Grace von Darnell

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who bought out Maurice Clark for $72,000?

3. What remained important in finding oil in the 1920s?

4. Britain wanted to keep whose oil out of the hands of the Russians and French in the early 1900s?

5. What sprung up to process crude oil into kerosene?

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