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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What handpicked Fresno legislature member once referred to groundwater regulation as “World War III”?
(a) Harry Morrison.
(b) Cordell Hull.
(c) Ray Roberts.
(d) Ken Maddy.

4. What from San Bernardino found their way to the 1884 World’s Fair in New Orleans, where they attracted crowds?
(a) Bing cherries.
(b) Himalayan blackberries.
(c) Valencia oranges.
(d) Red Delicious apples.

5. What was the eleventh-largest landowner in California in 1980?
(a) The Tenneco Corporation.
(b) Irvine Ranch.
(c) The DiGiorgio Company.
(d) Sierra Pacific Industries.

Short Answer Questions

1. The population of San Francisco went over how many in 1853?

2. What was the population of San Francisco in 1851?

3. Historically, the four rivers of Tulare Basin went into two terminal lakes, Tulare and what?

4. 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?

5. In San Francisco, average rainfall in May is how much?

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