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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 author describes flying over the state of Utah on his way back to California in what year in the Introduction?
(a) 1980.
(b) 1964.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1996.

2. Where was Harrison Gray Otis born?
(a) Ely, Minnesota.
(b) Marietta, Ohio.
(c) Atlanta, Georgia.
(d) Green Bay, Wisconsin.

3. How much of the water in California is used for irrigation purposes, according to the author?
(a) 80%.
(b) 65%.
(c) 40%.
(d) 25%.

4. When was Marc Reisner born?
(a) 1963.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1948.

5. What mountain range described in the Introduction stretches approximately 160 miles from the Utah-Idaho border, south through central Utah in the western United States?
(a) The Cascade Range.
(b) The Brooks Range.
(c) The Sierra Nevada.
(d) The Wasatch Range.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1848, what was the population of San Francisco?

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

3. Who wrote the sonnet “Ozymandias,” which is quoted in the opening of Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water?

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

5. For what organization was Marc Reisner a staff writer from 1972 to 1979?

(see the answer key)

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