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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what date did Major General William F. Cassidy give a speech titled “The Future of Water Development” before a gathering of his peers in Davis, California, according to the author in Chapter Six?
(a) August 16, 1962.
(b) February 27, 1944.
(c) September 22, 1951.
(d) June 2, 1975.

2. Floyd Dominy was Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner beginning in what year?
(a) 1938.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1967.
(d) 1959.

3. San Francisco is just slightly rainier than which Mexican city, according to the author in Chapter Ten?
(a) Tijuana.
(b) Monterrey.
(c) Chihuahua.
(d) Mexico City.

4. What organization does the author refer to “as opportunistic and ruthless an agency as American government has ever seen” in Chapter Six?
(a) The Internal Revenue Service.
(b) The Corps of Engineers.
(c) The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms.
(d) The Federal Bureau of Investigation.

5. In 1962, the total amount of federally built reservoir storage in the nation was somewhere around how many acres-feet?
(a) 300 million.
(b) 2 billion.
(c) 80 million.
(d) 950 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did the Fontenelle Dam spring a big leak, according to the author in Chapter Eleven?

2. What is the title of Chapter Six?

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

4. When did Harrison Gray Otis move to Santa Barbara, California?

5. What was the eleventh-largest landowner in California in 1980?

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