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8. By January 1901 the new well reached about …
a) 2,000 feet
b) 3,000 feet
c) 1,000 feet
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

16. Sperm oil was clear, nearly odorless, light in weight, and burned with …
a) little smoke

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