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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10 & 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. California’s Eel River peaked at 765,000 cubic feet per second during the Christmas flood of what year?
(a) 1875.
(b) 1934.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1964.

2. In 1848, what was the population of San Francisco?
(a) 2,500.
(b) 800.
(c) 4,500.
(d) 9,000.

3. William Mulholland’s father held what profession?
(a) Teacher.
(b) Doctor.
(c) Car salesman.
(d) Postal clerk.

4. When was Harrison Gray Otis born?
(a) 1879.
(b) 1908.
(c) 1856.
(d) 1837.

5. When did Harrison Gray Otis move to Santa Barbara, California?
(a) 1876.
(b) 1924.
(c) 1855.
(d) 1911.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states in Chapter Two, “Brigham Young dispatched a party of his most loyal disciples, in 1851 to follow whose old route to the coast?

2. Who is described as “a lawyer in the Interior solicitor’s office through the 1960s and early 1970s, until she resigned and joined the legal staff of California’s Department of Water Resources” in Chapter Ten?

3. Where was Harry Chandler born?

4. When was William Mulholland born?

5. Floyd Dominy was Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner until what year?

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