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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 title of Chapter Six?
(a) “Rivals in Crime.”
(b) “Things Fall Apart.”
(c) “The Peanut Farmer and the Pork Barrel.”
(d) “Dominy.”

2. Where is Bijou Creek located?
(a) Arizona.
(b) California.
(c) Colorado.
(d) Washington.

3. 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) $5 million.
(b) $1 million.
(c) $3 million.
(d) $8 million.

4. The annual income of Las Vegas is what percentage of the entire gross national product of Egypt, according to the author in Chapter Four?
(a) 25%.
(b) 5%.
(c) 10%.
(d) 40%.

5. The author describes flying over the state of Utah on his way back to California in what year in the Introduction?
(a) 1996.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1964.
(d) 1971.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much of the water in California is used for irrigation purposes, according to the author?

2. 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?

3. When was William Mulholland born?

4. Who, according to the author, was the unlikeliest commissioner the Bureau ever had?

5. What western city does the author describe “with exotic palms and golf-course lawns and a five-hundred-foot fountain and an artificial surf” in the Introduction?

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