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

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

3. What organization does the author refer to “as opportunistic and ruthless an agency as American government has ever seen” in Chapter Six?
(a) The Corps of Engineers.
(b) The Internal Revenue Service.
(c) The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms.
(d) The Federal Bureau of Investigation.

4. When was John Wesley Powell born?
(a) 1807.
(b) 1896.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1834.

5. According to Major General William F. Cassidy, how many acres of cultivated land were there per person in the 1890s?
(a) 41.
(b) 24.
(c) 77.
(d) 2.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of the four major prehistoric archaeological Oasisamerica traditions of what is now the American Southwest which the author describes in Chapter One?

2. What is the longest running enterprise for acquisition of satellite imagery of Earth?

3. Who does the author refer to as “an egomaniacal small-time construction tycoon” in Chapter Four?

4. When was Marc Reisner born?

5. Which states are touched by the Colorado River?

(see the answer key)

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