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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does the author say civilization had existed in Utah since Brigham Young led his followers there, in the Introduction?
(a) 56 years.
(b) 212 years.
(c) 328 years.
(d) 134 years.

2. In his budget request for fiscal year 1945, FDR included a request of how much money to permit the Bureau to begin work on the Kings River?
(a) $8 million.
(b) $3 million.
(c) $1 million.
(d) $5 million.

3. What were the two sheep-ranching Mormon brothers named who were captivated by the Boulder Canyon Project, according to the author in Chapter Four?
(a) A. T. and P. C. Ebbet.
(b) W. H. and E. O. Wattis.
(c) M. E. and P. M. Jacobs.
(d) F. B. and J. N. Matthews.

4. What region is located in southeastern Southern California, and is the site of an urban area largely centered on the city of El Centro?
(a) The San Joaquin Valley.
(b) The Sacramento Valley.
(c) Imperial Valley.
(d) Silicon Valley.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the author refer to as “horse-drawn Fresnoscraper kind of contractor” in Chapter Four?

2. What is one of the largest and hottest deserts in North America, with an area of 311,000 square kilometers?

3. Who is quoted in the beginning of Chapter Four as stating, “Ours was the first and will doubtless be the last party of whites to visit this profitless locale”?

4. 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?

5. The Kern County Land Company later became the main agricultural holding of what conglomerate?

(see the answer key)

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