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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) February 27, 1944.
(b) August 16, 1962.
(c) June 2, 1975.
(d) September 22, 1951.

3. In 1885, the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad linked Los Angeles directly with what city?
(a) Kansas City.
(b) Boston.
(c) Chicago.
(d) New York City.

4. 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) The DiGiorgio Company.
(b) Sierra Pacific Industries.
(c) The Tenneco Corporation.
(d) Irvine Ranch.

5. The Sierra Nevada foothills are how many miles across the Central Valley from San Francisco?
(a) 35.
(b) 150.
(c) 80.
(d) 225.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, “[Ronald] Reagan, as a westerner, should have been a friend of dams, but he was growing more conservative by the hour, and true conservatives tend to dislike” what?

2. 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?

3. The Kern County Land Company was originally put together by James Ben Ali Haggin and who?

4. Chapter Ten is subtitled what?

5. In 1962, the total amount of federally built reservoir storage in the nation was somewhere around how many acres-feet?

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