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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who favored favored domestic spending over war preparations against Germany in 1911?
(a) Nelson Mandela
(b) Nicholas II
(c) Woodrow Wilson
(d) Winston Churchill

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

3. Which conflict in the Pacific was decisive victory for the Americans and turned the tide of battle between Japan and the United States?
(a) The Battle of Ormac Bay
(b) The Battle of Kula Gulf
(c) Pearl Harbor
(d) The Battle of Midway

4. Who did FDR meet with at the Suez Canal Zone after Yalta?
(a) David McNaughton
(b) Joseph Stalin
(c) Erwin Rommel
(d) Ibn Saud

5. Who struck a deal with Saudi Arabia for $9.5 million up front; $1 million a year, whether or not oil was pumped; and a royalty of $0.55 per barrel?
(a) J. Paul Getty
(b) Juan Pérez Alfonso
(c) David McNaughton
(d) David Ricardo

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

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

8. What was the name of the pipeline that stretched from Texas to the East Coast?
(a) The Alamo Bootstrap
(b) The Dog Collar
(c) Little Pip
(d) Big Inch

9. Who instituted a vast building project in the British Navy to transform the fleet to use oil?
(a) Winston Churchill
(b) Woodrow Wilson
(c) Kaiser Wilhelm
(d) Daniel D'Arcy

10. The "Neutral Zone" was between Saudi Arabia and which other country?
(a) Kuwait
(b) Iraq
(c) Egypt
(d) Syria

11. "Colonel" Edwin Drake applied the salt drilling techniques of what country to oil?
(a) Iran
(b) Australia
(c) Kenya
(d) China

12. U.S. oil production rose how much between 1940 and 1945?
(a) 58%
(b) 4%
(c) 30%
(d) 90%

13. What material was rationed in the U.S. during the war?
(a) Rubber
(b) Oil
(c) Water
(d) Cotton

14. The Rothschilds created what company in 1902?
(a) Asiatic Petroleum Company
(b) Standard Oil Company
(c) Royal Dutch Company
(d) Shell Oil Company

15. Who did FDR appoint to head the Department of the Interior, in addition to the newly created positions of Oil Administrator and Public Works Administrator?
(a) Harold Ickes
(b) Adam Joiner
(c) August Hogg
(d) Thomas Stirling

Short Answer Questions

1. By late 1944, 120,000 barrels of aviation gasoline were delivered daily to where?

2. By 1915, APOC was supplying how much of the British Navy's oil needs?

3. Who bought out Maurice Clark for $72,000?

4. In December 1941, Japan bombed what target in the U.S.?

5. What "taboo" did Venezuela break in the 1940s?

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