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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When was the revised and updated version of Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water published?
(a) 1979.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1999.
(d) 1993.

3. When was the Reclamation Act established?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1854.
(c) 1897.
(d) 1939.

4. The author states in the Introduction that California has the two biggest irrigation projects on earth, but its irrigated acreage is not much larger than what U.S. state?
(a) Alabama.
(b) Vermont.
(c) Idaho.
(d) Ohio.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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”?

3. 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?

4. William Mulholland’s father held what profession?

5. When was William Mulholland born?

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