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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5, Chapter 36.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Iraq embargoed oil to which country in response to the events at Camp David?
(a) India
(b) Australia
(c) Russia
(d) Egypt

2. What was the greatest "if" in the Middle East after WWII?
(a) The technology for a transcontinent pipeline
(b) The effects of a Russian invasion
(c) The creation of a Jewish state
(d) An uncertain future after Ibn Saud died

3. How long did it take Japan to seize control of the oil in the East Indies?
(a) 4 weeks
(b) 3 months
(c) 5 days
(d) 1 year

4. Which television show symbolized the greatest boom in history during the 1980s?
(a) M.A.S.H.
(b) LA Law
(c) Love Boat
(d) Dallas

5. Oil industry lore calls the war years what?
(a) Time of the Hundred Men
(b) Germany's Fury
(c) The Saudi Alamo
(d) The Stand in Arabia

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the main determinant of energy and oil consumption?

2. The U.S. established what to contain the Soviets and deal with British financial issues after WWII?

3. Who used radio to mobilize Arab nationalism and stir up the whole Third World?

4. In August 1928, Deterding met where with Heinrich Riedemann of Jersey Standard-Germany, Cadman of APOC, William Mellon of Gulf, Robert Stewart of Indiana and others to discuss the oil industry?

5. Venezuela nationalized oil production in what year?

(see the answer key)

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