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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to the author in Chapter Ten, “In Kern County, where the depth to groundwater is much greater, farmers who had pumped from 275 feet during World War II were pumping from 460 feet by” what year?
(a) 1971.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1977.

3. According to the author in Chapter Two, “the most persecuted among the virtuous in nineteenth-century America were, besides peaceful Indians and runaway slaves and Mennonites and Quakers, the members of” what faith?
(a) The Muslim faith.
(b) The Jewish faith.
(c) The Mormon faith.
(d) The Christian Science faith.

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

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) Irvine Ranch.
(c) The DiGiorgio Company.
(d) The Tenneco Corporation.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What handpicked Fresno legislature member once referred to groundwater regulation as “World War III”?

3. According to the author in Chapter Ten, “Figures for 1946, published in a Senate report on the acreage limitation, reveal that Standard Oil owned” how many acres in the probable CVP service area?

4. When was William Mulholland born?

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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