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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6 & 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who was to the man to “discover a malleable yellow rock in the tail race of Sutter’s Mill on the American River above Sacramento” in the 1800s,” according to the author in Chapter One?
(a) Floyd Dominy.
(b) C.W. Hollister.
(c) James Marshall.
(d) Emil Haury.

4. When was Harry Chandler born?
(a) 1885.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1864.
(d) 1933.

5. The Kern County Land Company was originally put together by James Ben Ali Haggin and who?
(a) Robert Caro.
(b) Marriner Stoddard Eccles.
(c) Henry J. Kaiser.
(d) Lloyd Tevis.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Franklin D. Roosevelt take office as President of the United States?

2. According to the author in Chapter Three, regarding the Bureau of Reclamation, “The most auspicious event in its entire history was the election to the presidency in 1932 of a freewheeling, free-spending” what?

3. What is the motto of the Corps of Engineers?

4. 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?

5. When was Franklin D. Roosevelt born?

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