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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The "Arab oil embargo" consisted of what?
(a) Arab companies seizing control of foreign oil fields in Arab countries
(b) The total ban on the export of oil to the U.S. and the Netherlands
(c) The ban on the import of oil to Arab countries
(d) Western countries boycotting Arab oil

2. Oil producing countries were assigned quotas with what target in mind per day?
(a) 12 million barrels
(b) 18 million barrels
(c) 4 million barrels
(d) 26 million barrels

3. Mohammed Reza Pahlavi was placed in control of what country?
(a) Saudi Arabia
(b) Syria
(c) Israel
(d) Iran

4. How did Eisenhower feel about the attack on Egypt?
(a) Surprised and angry
(b) Cautiously happy
(c) Indifferent
(d) Resigned and depressed

5. When did traffic in the Canal resume after the attack?
(a) 1942
(b) 1957
(c) 1970
(d) 1913

6. What was Abdullah Tariki's nickname?
(a) Oil King
(b) Shah of Petroleum
(c) Red Sheikh
(d) Elephant

7. What is a giant oil field called?
(a) Elephant
(b) Big Dipper
(c) Roman Empire
(d) T-Rex

8. Who was named Saudi Arabia's Director of Oil and Mining Affairs?
(a) Abdullah Tariki
(b) Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonso
(c) President Betancourt
(d) Gamal Abedel Nasser

9. On August 2, 1990, 100,000 Iraqi troops invaded which country?
(a) Iran
(b) Israel
(c) Kuwait
(d) India

10. New York City restricted what in 1965?
(a) Coal burning
(b) Gasoline fueled cars
(c) Taxis
(d) Oil

11. Britain and France joined with what country to plan an attack on Egypt?
(a) Israel
(b) Japan
(c) The United States
(d) Germany

12. Which country wanted OPEC to restore quotas at a lower level?
(a) Canada
(b) China
(c) Algeria
(d) Indonesia

13. What was central in the rise of Arab nationalism?
(a) The attack on Egypt
(b) The Shah of Iraq
(c) Western culture
(d) Oil

14. Which country did not have a quota?
(a) Iran
(b) Saudi Arabia
(c) China
(d) Kuwait

15. Who called for a "new concept" that would base the price of oil on the cost of alternative energy sources?
(a) The Shah
(b) Henry Kissinger
(c) William Simon
(d) Richard Nixon

Short Answer Questions

1. Which country seized Jerusalem, the West Bank, and the Golan Heights?

2. In 1979, Iran produced what percent of the world's oil?

3. What did 100,000 people celebrate in 1970 in the United States?

4. The global battle of oil production intensified what rivalry?

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

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