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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one of the largest and hottest deserts in North America, with an area of 311,000 square kilometers?
(a) The Sonoran Desert.
(b) The Sahara Desert.
(c) The Gobi Desert.
(d) The Gila Desert.

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

3. Where was William Mulholland born?
(a) Stockholm, Sweden.
(b) Dublin, Ireland.
(c) Lisbon, Portugal.
(d) London, England.

4. What mountain range described in the Introduction stretches approximately 160 miles from the Utah-Idaho border, south through central Utah in the western United States?
(a) The Cascade Range.
(b) The Sierra Nevada.
(c) The Brooks Range.
(d) The Wasatch Range.

5. According to the author in the Introduction, “On the east side of the Sierra-Cascade crest, moisture drops immediately from as much as 150 inches of precipitation on the western slope to as little as” how many inches on the eastern slope?
(a) 38.
(b) 4.
(c) 22.
(d) 13.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Charles Rockwood convince to join forces with him in irrigation, according to the author in Chapter Four?

2. What was the population of Los Angeles when Harrison Gray Otis moved there?

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

4. William Mulholland’s father held what profession?

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

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