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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When was William Mulholland born?
(a) 1907.
(b) 1892.
(c) 1855.
(d) 1823.

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

4. Who was to the man to “discover a malleable yellow rock in the tail race of Sutter’s Mill on the American River above Sacramento” in the 1800s,” according to the author in Chapter One?
(a) C.W. Hollister.
(b) Emil Haury.
(c) Floyd Dominy.
(d) James Marshall.

5. In what year was the Hoover Dam dedicated?
(a) 1949.
(b) 1956.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1922.

Short Answer Questions

1. In which year does the author state that “Congress received two separate reports on developing the Kings and the Kern: one on a traditional Reclamation project, the other on a project that purported to be for flood control, but which, by controlling the river’s runoff and drying up Tulare Lake, would irrigate a roughly equal amount of land”?

2. According to the author, “New England was completely forested in 1620 and nearly deforested” how many years later?

3. California’s Eel River peaked at 765,000 cubic feet per second during the Christmas flood of what year?

4. Harry Morrison and Morris Knudsen, two engineers formerly with the Bureau of Reclamation, went into business together where, according to the author in Chapter Four?

5. When was Franklin D. Roosevelt born?

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