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

2. What method of delivery for oil did the oil companies settle on to avoid teamster conflicts?
(a) Boats
(b) Tanker trucks
(c) Trains
(d) Pipelines

3. Who took over leadership of Standard from Rockefeller?
(a) John D. Archibold
(b) John Mellon
(c) Immanuel Nobel
(d) Daniel Rockefeller

4. Which Swedish inventor established a considerable industrial company in Russia?
(a) Auguste Comte
(b) Nicklas Lidstrom
(c) Immanuel Nobel
(d) Nils von Dardel

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who stepped in to restore order as majors and independents feuded in the United States?

2. Who became Britain's chief oil supplier just before WWI?

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

4. In 1901, the Shah gave D'Arcy access to how much of the country?

5. What event in the 1920s plunged oil into dire straits?

(see the answer key)

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