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3. What did, besides water, the creek carry?
4. What two main problems did the Seneca Oil Company face?
5. What was the purpose of the Seneca Oil Company?
6. What was one of the first things Drake and William A. Smith did?
7. What well was the first drilled in the United States for the sole purpose of finding and
producing oil?
8. What well marked the beginning of the petroleum era in the United States?
9. When and where did the prospectors find gold?
10. What is a wall cake?

Choose the correct answer.
1. How deep was the first well drilled?
a) 87 metres
b) 155 metres
c) 168 metres
d) no correct variant

2.When was the first successful well drilled?
a) in 1866
b) in 1766
c) in 1966
d) no correct variant

3. Where did immigrants go after prospectors found gold?
a) to New York
b) to Florida
c) to California
d) no correct variant

4. When did prospectors find gold at Sutter's Mill?
a) 1949
b) 1849
c) 1749
d) no correct variant

5. What was the purpose of the Drake's first well?
a)finding and producing oil
b)finding money
c)finding and producing gold
d) no correct variant

6. William A. Smith began raising money to collect the oil from the …
a) Titusville spring
b) Saint Nickolas spring
c) Rabipit spring
d) no correct variant

7.The Hamil's equipment was …
a) a rig line
b) a cable-tool rigs
c) a rotary drilling rig
d) no correct variant

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