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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 the longest running enterprise for acquisition of satellite imagery of Earth?
(a) MapQuest.
(b) The SatNav Registry.
(c) The Landsat Program.
(d) Google Maps.

2. Who, according to the author, was the unlikeliest commissioner the Bureau ever had?
(a) Raymond Hill.
(b) Ray Roberts.
(c) Mike Strauss.
(d) Robert Caro.

3. The negotiation of the Colorado River Compact took place in what year, under the guidance of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover?
(a) 1958.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1885.
(d) 1922.

4. The author states there are currently how many acres of cultivated land per person in the U.S. in Chapter Six?
(a) 5.
(b) 1.
(c) 2.
(d) 9.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Almost all of the rain in Napa Valley falls between which months?

2. What from San Bernardino found their way to the 1884 World’s Fair in New Orleans, where they attracted crowds?

3. Who wrote the sonnet “Ozymandias,” which is quoted in the opening of Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water?

4. In what year did Charles Rockwood see the Colorado River for the first time?

5. When was Harrison Gray Otis born?

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