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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Richard Wilson had a degree in agricultural engineering from which institution?
(a) Princeton University.
(b) Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
(c) Dartmouth College.
(d) Columbia University.

2. When was the Central Valley Project Act passed in California?
(a) 1908.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1933.
(d) 1917.

3. In his budget request for fiscal year 1945, FDR included a request of how much money to permit the Bureau to begin work on the Kings River?
(a) $3 million.
(b) $8 million.
(c) $5 million.
(d) $1 million.

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?
(a) Stewart Udall.
(b) George Chaffey.
(c) Lloyd Tevis.
(d) Ray Roberts.

5. 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?
(a) 1952.
(b) 1971.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1977.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter Ten is subtitled what?

2. The Kings, the Kaweah, the Tule, and what are the southernmost rivers flowing out of the Sierra Nevada into the Central Valley of California?

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

4. San Francisco is just slightly rainier than which Mexican city, according to the author in Chapter Ten?

5. Where was William Mulholland born?

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