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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who toured the Middle East and believed it to be "the greatest prize in history" because of its oil?
(a) James Forrestal
(b) Everette Lee DeGolyer
(c) David McNaughton
(d) FDR

2. What agreement signed in 1944, assured "equity" to all parties, including the oil producing countries?
(a) Saudi-American Oil Pact
(b) Kuwait-Saudi Agreement
(c) Saudi-English Oil Pact
(d) Anglo-American Petroleum Agreement

3. Which country did the United States begin transshipping to in 1940?
(a) England
(b) Russia
(c) Poland
(d) Israel

4. In December 1941, Japan bombed what target in the U.S.?
(a) Channel Islands
(b) Seattle
(c) San Diego Bay
(d) Pearl Harbor

5. Germans pioneered the extraction of what from coal before World War I?
(a) Synthetic fuels
(b) Oil
(c) Petroleum
(d) Nitrogen

6. In 1901, the Shah gave D'Arcy access to how much of the country?
(a) 95%
(b) 75%
(c) 15%
(d) 35%

7. What was key to Hitler's aggression toward Russia?
(a) Russia's alliance with the United States
(b) Wanting to defeat Stalin
(c) Baku oil
(d) Synthetic oils

8. The Royal Dutch company joined forces with what other oil company in 1907?
(a) Shell
(b) Standard
(c) Exxon
(d) BP

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

10. In 1944, the Allies targeted what with bombings in Germany?
(a) German submarines
(b) Tank factories
(c) Synthetic fuel plants
(d) Concentration camps

11. Stalin wanted oil from which country to supplement Soviet production?
(a) Kuwait
(b) Saudi Arabia
(c) Iran
(d) India

12. 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?
(a) Nepal
(b) Scotland
(c) Moscow
(d) Paris

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

14. What product grew rapidly after its first delivery to England in 1861?
(a) Naphtha
(b) Gasoline
(c) Kerosene
(d) Vasoline

15. What document came out of the meeting, which encouraged cooperation by the oil companies?
(a) SC-RC
(b) Oil Agreement Pact
(c) As-Is
(d) Petroleum Edict (PET)

Short Answer Questions

1. Which other country provided oil for Japan in the early 1930s?

2. Who took over leadership of Standard from Rockefeller?

3. What was banned in 1943 in the U.S.?

4. Japan believed that what was the biggest liability for Germans in WWI, leading to their defeat?

5. Who instituted a vast building project in the British Navy to transform the fleet to use oil?

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