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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were a series of conflicts between the city of Los Angeles, farmers and ranchers in the Owens Valley of Eastern California, and environmentalists called?
(a) The Aquatic Revolution.
(b) The Urban Water Hoard.
(c) The California Water Wars.
(d) The Great Acquisition.

2. About what percent of the state of California receives less than twenty inches of precipitation a year?
(a) 50%.
(b) 25%.
(c) 65%.
(d) 40%.

3. In which year does the author state “the Bureau of Reclamation was just beginning its detailed feasibility investigations of the Kings and Kern River projects”?
(a) 1937.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1919.

4. Floyd Dominy was Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner until what year?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1977.
(d) 1983.

5. The first boom of travelers to Los Angeles culminated in what year, according to the author in Chapter Two?
(a) 1905.
(b) 1889.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1933.

Short Answer Questions

1. William Mulholland’s father held what profession?

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. Who was Pat Brown’s water resources chief?

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