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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 Grand Coulee is an ancient riverbed in what U.S. state?
(a) Colorado.
(b) Arizona.
(c) Montana.
(d) Washington.

2. In what year did Harry S. Truman assume the office of the U.S. Presidency?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1949.
(d) 1937.

3. The author states there are currently how many acres of cultivated land per person in the U.S. in Chapter Six?
(a) 9.
(b) 2.
(c) 1.
(d) 5.

4. From whom did Harrison Gray Otis purchase the Santa Barbara Press?
(a) Barry Goldwater.
(b) Robert Caro.
(c) C.W. Hollister.
(d) James Marshall.

5. The author states in Chapter Ten that “In eighty-two years, the Bureau would see the breakup of only one major illegal landholding through to the end” What company was this?
(a) Sierra Pacific Industries.
(b) The DiGiorgio Company.
(c) The Tenneco Corporation.
(d) Irvine Ranch.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The author states in Chapter Two, “Brigham Young dispatched a party of his most loyal disciples, in 1851 to follow whose old route to the coast?

3. In what year was the Corps of Engineers officially christened with its current name?

4. When did the American Revolutionary War begin?

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

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