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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 is the title of the book’s Introduction?
(a) First Causes.
(b) Rivals in Crime.
(c) A Semidesert with a Desert Heart.
(d) Chinatown.

2. A letter is quoted in Chapter One from Francisco Vásquez de Coronado to whom?
(a) Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza.
(b) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(c) Barry Goldwater.
(d) Lieutenant Joseph Christmas Ives.

3. According to the author in the Introduction, “Fifty-six years after the first earth was turned beside City Creek, the Mormons had” how many “acres under full or partial irrigation in several states”?
(a) 250,000.
(b) 500,000.
(c) 6,000,000.
(d) 2,000,000.

4. The first boom of travelers to Los Angeles culminated in what year, according to the author in Chapter Two?
(a) 1889.
(b) 1933.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1905.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter Three?

2. From whom did Harrison Gray Otis purchase the Santa Barbara Press?

3. How many major dams does the author say California has in the Introduction?

4. When was Marc Reisner born?

5. According to the author in the Introduction, “On the east side of the Sierra-Cascade crest, moisture drops immediately from as much as 150 inches of precipitation on the western slope to as little as” how many inches on the eastern slope?

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