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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5, Chapter 31.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Venezuela nationalized oil production in what year?
(a) 1955
(b) 1988
(c) 1961
(d) 1976

2. Who was put in charge of the Iranian National Oil Company?
(a) Ali Razmara
(b) Sir William Fraser
(c) Mehdi Bazargan
(d) Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

3. What denied foreign interests access to drilling rights on public lands if their governments denied similar access to Americans?
(a) Oil Dependency Act of 1923
(b) Oil Drilling Act of 1922
(c) Foreign Oil Act of 1919
(d) Mineral Leasing Act of 1920

4. In 1962, what television show became a hit, celebrating the "black gold" that had transformed the face of America?
(a) The Beverly Hillbillies
(b) M.A.S.H.
(c) Leave it to Beaver
(d) Green Acres

5. What accelerated the American escape to the suburbs?
(a) Coal
(b) Cheap gas
(c) Airplanes
(d) Electricity

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was OPEC founded?

2. When did traffic in the Canal resume after the attack?

3. What document came out of the meeting, which encouraged cooperation by the oil companies?

4. Nixon imposed what in 1971 to fight inflation?

5. Who took over leadership of Standard from Rockefeller?

(see the answer key)

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