1. Who does the author refer to as “horse-drawn Fresnoscraper kind of contractor” in Chapter Four?
(a) Jim Casey.
(b) Emil Haury.
(c) W. A. Bechtel.
(d) Harry Morrison.

2. A letter is quoted in Chapter One from Francisco Vásquez de Coronado to whom?
(a) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(b) Barry Goldwater.
(c) Lieutenant Joseph Christmas Ives.
(d) Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza.

3. Where was John Wesley Powell born?
(a) Aurora, Illinois.
(b) Mount Morris, New York.
(c) Akron, Ohio.
(d) Gary, Indiana.

4. For what organization was Marc Reisner a staff writer from 1972 to 1979?
(a) The Natural Resources Defense Council.
(b) The World Wildlife Fund.
(c) The Sierra Club.
(d) The Nature Conservancy.

5. Where was Marc Reisner born?
(a) Billings, Montana.
(b) Knoxville, Tennessee.
(c) Durango, Colorado.
(d) St. Paul, Minnesota.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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”?

2. Which Texas historian wrote an article for Harper’s entitled “The American West, Perpetual Mirage”?

3. Every year, the Mississippi River carries about how many acres-feet of water out to sea, according to the author in Chapter Six?

4. The population of San Francisco went over how many in 1853?

5. When did the American Revolutionary War end?

(see the answer key)

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