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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In which year does the author state “the Bureau of Reclamation was just beginning its detailed feasibility investigations of the Kings and Kern River projects”?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1937.

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

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

4. The first boom of travelers to Los Angeles culminated in what year, according to the author in Chapter Two?
(a) 1889.
(b) 1933.
(c) 1905.
(d) 1920.

5. When did the American Revolutionary War begin?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1892.
(c) 1775.
(d) 1812.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the title of Chapter Three?

3. 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?

4. The author begins Chapter Three by stating, “When archaeologists from some other planet sift through the bleached bones of our civilization, they may well conclude that our temples were” what?

5. 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?

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