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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. In the late 1970s, oil buyers did what?
(a) Sold the oil at low prices
(b) Stopped buying
(c) Demanded that less oil be produced so prices would increase
(d) Hoarded the oil they bought

2. By late 1944, 120,000 barrels of aviation gasoline were delivered daily to where?
(a) Java
(b) Toyko
(c) Channel Islands
(d) Guam

3. Which of the following was a parent company of Casoc?
(a) BP
(b) Shell
(c) Exxon
(d) Texaco

4. On April 5, 1945, who prepared to advance on Japan?
(a) Australia
(b) Canada
(c) The Soviet Union
(d) France

5. What was one of OPEC's goals when it was founded?
(a) To sell oil as cheaply as possible
(b) To take over the world's oil production
(c) To restore the price of oil to its precut level
(d) To keep Western nations out of Arabia

Short Answer Questions

1. J. N. Pews in 1876 pioneered the use of natural gas to light which city?

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

3. Where was a vast gas field found?

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

5. In 1962, what television show became a hit, celebrating the "black gold" that had transformed the face of America?

(see the answer key)

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