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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many acres of marsh and swamp forest were converted to farms in Arkansas and Louisiana, according to the author in the Introduction?
(a) 9 million.
(b) 3 million.
(c) 25 million.
(d) 60 million.

2. 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?
(a) The Christian Science faith.
(b) The Muslim faith.
(c) The Mormon faith.
(d) The Jewish faith.

3. According to the author in the Introduction, “Modern Utah, where large-scale irrigation has been going on longer than anywhere else,” has what percent of its land area under cultivation?
(a) 3.
(b) 39.
(c) 12.
(d) 24.

4. When was William Mulholland born?
(a) 1823.
(b) 1892.
(c) 1855.
(d) 1907.

5. What river is known as the River of No Return?
(a) The Snake River.
(b) The Salmon River.
(c) The Yellowstone River.
(d) The Owyhee River.

Short Answer Questions

1. The population of San Francisco went over how many in 1853?

2. The Sierra Nevada foothills are how many miles across the Central Valley from San Francisco?

3. Where was William Mulholland born?

4. 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?

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

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