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

2. Where was John Wesley Powell born?
(a) Akron, Ohio.
(b) Aurora, Illinois.
(c) Mount Morris, New York.
(d) Gary, Indiana.

3. In what year did Marc Reisner die?
(a) 1977.
(b) 2000.
(c) 2007.
(d) 1992.

4. The author states in Chapter Two, “Brigham Young dispatched a party of his most loyal disciples, in 1851 to follow whose old route to the coast?
(a) Henry J. Kaiser’s.
(b) C.W. Hollister’s.
(c) James Marshall’s.
(d) Jedediah Smith’s.

5. For what organization was Marc Reisner a staff writer from 1972 to 1979?
(a) The World Wildlife Fund.
(b) The Sierra Club.
(c) The Natural Resources Defense Council.
(d) The Nature Conservancy.

Short Answer Questions

1. The first boom of travelers to Los Angeles culminated in what year, according to the author in Chapter Two?

2. 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?

3. The Reclamation Act was authored by what U.S. Representative?

4. 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?

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

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