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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Marriner Stoddard Eccles born?
(a) 1843.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1908.
(d) 1876.

2. The drop to the Colorado River is nearly how many feet?
(a) 5,000.
(b) 9,400.
(c) 13,000.
(d) 7,600.

3. 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) 1963.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1937.

4. The narrator states in Chapter Four that “If the Colorado River suddenly stopped flowing, you would have” how many “years of carryover capacity in the reservoirs before you had to evacuate most of southern California and Arizona and a good portion of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming”?
(a) 22.
(b) 4.
(c) 15.
(d) 11.

5. What from San Bernardino found their way to the 1884 World’s Fair in New Orleans, where they attracted crowds?
(a) Valencia oranges.
(b) Bing cherries.
(c) Himalayan blackberries.
(d) Red Delicious apples.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter Three?

2. According to Major General William F. Cassidy, how many acres of cultivated land were there per person in the 1890s?

3. Who, according to the author, was the unlikeliest commissioner the Bureau ever had?

4. The Kern County Land Company later became the main agricultural holding of what conglomerate?

5. According to the author in the Introduction, “Fifty-six years after the first earth was turned beside City Creek, the Mormons had” how many “acres under full or partial irrigation in several states”?

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