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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 2 & 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were a series of conflicts between the city of Los Angeles, farmers and ranchers in the Owens Valley of Eastern California, and environmentalists called?
(a) The Urban Water Hoard.
(b) The Aquatic Revolution.
(c) The Great Acquisition.
(d) The California Water Wars.

2. What was the population of San Francisco in 1851?
(a) 35,000.
(b) 48,000.
(c) 27,000.
(d) 12,000.

3. William Mulholland’s father held what profession?
(a) Teacher.
(b) Postal clerk.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Car salesman.

4. In 1848, what was the population of San Francisco?
(a) 4,500.
(b) 9,000.
(c) 2,500.
(d) 800.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author claim in the Introduction that, “because of their moisture requirements,” are our physiological counterparts in the kingdom of plants?

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. What from San Bernardino found their way to the 1884 World’s Fair in New Orleans, where they attracted crowds?

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

5. What word used in the book’s Introduction means allowing the maximum passage of light, as glass?

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