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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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?
(a) Bahmona.
(b) Brenula.
(c) Trincala.
(d) Hohokam.

3. What is the title of Chapter Three?
(a) “The Red Queen.”
(b) “A Country of Illusion.”
(c) “First Causes.”
(d) “Things Fall Apart.”

4. What word used in the book’s Introduction means allowing the maximum passage of light, as glass?
(a) Irradiate.
(b) Translucent.
(c) Reflective.
(d) Pellucid.

5. How long does the author say civilization had existed in Utah since Brigham Young led his followers there, in the Introduction?
(a) 212 years.
(b) 134 years.
(c) 56 years.
(d) 328 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Texas historian wrote an article for Harper’s entitled “The American West, Perpetual Mirage”?

2. When was the revised and updated version of Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water published?

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

4. According to the author in Chapter Two, “the most persecuted among the virtuous in nineteenth-century America were, besides peaceful Indians and runaway slaves and Mennonites and Quakers, the members of” what faith?

5. Almost all of the rain in Napa Valley falls between which months?

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