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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 state capital of Utah?
(a) Salt Lake City.
(b) Ogden.
(c) Provo.
(d) Moab.

2. From whom did Harrison Gray Otis purchase the Santa Barbara Press?
(a) Robert Caro.
(b) C.W. Hollister.
(c) James Marshall.
(d) Barry Goldwater.

3. According to the author in the Introduction, “Modern Utah, where large-scale irrigation has been going on longer than anywhere else,” has what percent of its land area under cultivation?
(a) 39.
(b) 3.
(c) 12.
(d) 24.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Marriner Stoddard Eccles born?

2. In what year did Franklin D. Roosevelt take office as President of the United States?

3. The Sierra Nevada foothills are how many miles across the Central Valley from San Francisco?

4. When was William Mulholland born?

5. According to the author in Chapter Two, “the most persecuted among the virtuous in nineteenth-century America were, besides peaceful Indians and runaway slaves and Mennonites and Quakers, the members of” what faith?

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