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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Historically, the four rivers of Tulare Basin went into two terminal lakes, Tulare and what?
(a) Hetch Hetchy Reservoir.
(b) Don Pedro Reservoir.
(c) Shasta Lake.
(d) Buena Vista Lake.

2. The author states in Chapter Ten that agriculture uses what percent of all the water in California?
(a) 62%.
(b) 22%.
(c) 45%.
(d) 81%.

3. According to the author in Chapter Three, regarding the Bureau of Reclamation, “The most auspicious event in its entire history was the election to the presidency in 1932 of a freewheeling, free-spending” what?
(a) Patrician.
(b) Libertarian.
(c) Republican.
(d) Democrat.

4. In San Francisco, average rainfall in May is how much?
(a) One-quarter of an inch.
(b) Four-tenths of an inch.
(c) Two-thirds of an inch.
(d) Six-tenths of an inch.

5. In 1962, the total amount of federally built reservoir storage in the nation was somewhere around how many acres-feet?
(a) 80 million.
(b) 950 million.
(c) 300 million.
(d) 2 billion.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author in Chapter Ten, “In Kern County, where the depth to groundwater is much greater, farmers who had pumped from 275 feet during World War II were pumping from 460 feet by” what year?

2. In which year does the author state that “Congress received two separate reports on developing the Kings and the Kern: one on a traditional Reclamation project, the other on a project that purported to be for flood control, but which, by controlling the river’s runoff and drying up Tulare Lake, would irrigate a roughly equal amount of land”?

3. What handpicked Fresno legislature member once referred to groundwater regulation as “World War III”?

4. In 1964, what Interior Secretary ordered Commissioner Floyd Dominy to investigate the number of violations occurring within the service area of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California?

5. Every year, the Mississippi River carries about how many acres-feet of water out to sea, according to the author in Chapter Six?

(see the answer key)

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