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d) no correct variant
9. At Spindletop, the Hamils used … as a drilling fluid
a) milk
b) oil
c) water
d) no correct variant
10. Reports of drilling for oil in … soon reached all parts of the U.S., Canada, and
abroad.
a) Pennsylvania
b) Florida
c) Texas
d) no correct variant
11. By the spring of 1859, Drake employed William A. Smith to be his …
a) director
b) well driller
c) driver
d) no correct variant
12. One problem the company faced was how best to …
a) sell oil
b) catch bigger amount of oil
c) produce the oil from the land
d) no correct variant
13.What for was oil used first?
a)as fuel
b)as lubricant
c)as mud
d) no correct variant
14. About this time - 1854 - a New York … named George Bissell received a
sample of an unusual liquid from a professor at Dartmouth College.
a) lawyer
b) economist
c) attorney
d) no correct variant
15. What did the New England whalers in the mid-1800s do?
a) stopped using any lamps
b) discovered a new kind of oil
c) hunted their quarry to extinction
d) no correct variant
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