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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 the book’s Introduction?
(a) Rivals in Crime.
(b) Chinatown.
(c) First Causes.
(d) A Semidesert with a Desert Heart.

2. In 1848, what was the population of San Francisco?
(a) 800.
(b) 4,500.
(c) 2,500.
(d) 9,000.

3. 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”?
(a) 2,000,000.
(b) 6,000,000.
(c) 250,000.
(d) 500,000.

4. 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?
(a) Reno, Nevada.
(b) Phoenix, Arizona.
(c) Albuquerque, New Mexico.
(d) Bakersfield, California.

5. In 1885, the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad linked Los Angeles directly with what city?
(a) Kansas City.
(b) Chicago.
(c) New York City.
(d) Boston.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Marc Reisner born?

2. What does the author claim in the Introduction that, “because of their moisture requirements,” are our physiological counterparts in the kingdom of plants?

3. When was John Wesley Powell born?

4. How much of the water in California is used for irrigation purposes, according to the author?

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?

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