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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What else does Saudi Arabia harvest from the oil fields?
(a) Hydrogen.
(b) Natural gases.
(c) Diamonds.
(d) Carbonate.

2. Where is Matthew Simmons from?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Louisiana.
(c) Alabama.
(d) Texas.

3. The crude oil coming from Saudi Arabia contains liberal amounts of what, which makes it less pure?
(a) Sand.
(b) Carbon.
(c) Sea water.
(d) Salt.

4. What title did Ahmed Zaki Yamani hold?
(a) Saudi Arabian economic minister.
(b) Saudi Arabian foriegn minister.
(c) Saudi Arabian oil minister.
(d) Saudi Arabian defense minister.

5. Who secured the first prospecting right in Saudi Arabia?
(a) NOCAL.
(b) AMCAL.
(c) SOCAL.
(d) USCAL.

6. What job does Matthew Simmons hold?
(a) Oil speculator.
(b) Company CEO.
(c) Federal Reserve Chairman.
(d) Investment banker.

7. From 1950-1982, OPEC published information on production levels for each field how often?
(a) Never.
(b) Once a decade.
(c) Once every five years.
(d) At least once a year.

8. When was the Spindletop field discovered?
(a) 1906.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1908.
(d) 1901.

9. Water is a natural part of the ________ process in oil fields.
(a) Environmental.
(b) Recovery.
(c) Decline.
(d) Development.

10. What is the name of the Saudi Arabian national oil company?
(a) Saudi Gas and Petroleum.
(b) Saudi Oil.
(c) Saudi Aramco.
(d) Saudi Texaco.

11. Without any significant new discoveries, Saudi Arabia will lose what percentage of its oil production when Ghawar closes down?
(a) Approximately 75%.
(b) More than half.
(c) Less than half.
(d) Aprroximately 80%.

12. What is Ghawar known for?
(a) World's most hard-to-reach oil reserve.
(b) World's richest oil reserve.
(c) World's most political oil reserve.
(d) World's most fragile oil reserve.

13. Sanfaniya is located where?
(a) Offshore.
(b) Under mountains.
(c) In a valley.
(d) Beneath a river.

14. When was the first significant oil find in the Middle East?
(a) 1928.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1938.
(d) 1908.

15. Who did the United States government ask to investigate Saudi Arabia's ability to meet global oil demands?
(a) The Heritage Institute.
(b) The GAO.
(c) Congress.
(d) M.I.T. researchers.

Short Answer Questions

1. With OPEC's secrecy regarding oil production levels, what is unclear?

2. When was Saudi Arabia established?

3. In 1988, the Saudi Arabian government raised the estimate of oil reserves in the country to what level?

4. Offshore exploration is banned in the United States except where?

5. In 2002, a paper was published, by Saudi experts, that detailed the problems with oil recovery at what Ghawar location?

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