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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) Shasta Lake.
(b) Buena Vista Lake.
(c) Don Pedro Reservoir.
(d) Hetch Hetchy Reservoir.

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

3. By the mid-1920s, thanks to irrigation pumping, California had surpassed what as the richest agricultural state in the country?
(a) Minnesota.
(b) Illinois.
(c) Nebraska.
(d) Iowa.

4. Which mountains separate southern California from the San Joaquin Valley?
(a) The Tehachapi Mountains.
(b) The Cascade Mountains.
(c) The Trinity Mountains.
(d) The Sierra Nevada.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What organization does the author refer to “as opportunistic and ruthless an agency as American government has ever seen” in Chapter Six?

2. The Grand Coulee is an ancient riverbed in what U.S. state?

3. Where was Harry S. Truman born?

4. When was the Central Valley Project Act passed in California?

5. William Mulholland’s father held what profession?

(see the answer key)

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