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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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. Chapter Ten is subtitled what?
(a) “Chinatown.”
(b) “The Go-Go Years.”
(c) “A Country of Illusion.”
(d) “Those Who Refuse to learn…”

4. What was the population of San Francisco in 1851?
(a) 27,000.
(b) 48,000.
(c) 12,000.
(d) 35,000.

5. Where was Harrison Gray Otis born?
(a) Ely, Minnesota.
(b) Marietta, Ohio.
(c) Atlanta, Georgia.
(d) Green Bay, Wisconsin.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. By the mid-1920s, thanks to irrigation pumping, California had surpassed what as the richest agricultural state in the country?

3. When did the American Revolutionary War begin?

4. Floyd Dominy was Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner beginning in what year?

5. Where was Harry Chandler born?

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